Not long ago the Global Aging Initiative at the Center for Strategic & International Studies published The Graying of the Great Powers: Demography and Geopolitics in the 21st Century.
This book deserves much more attention - particularly from those university leaders involved in international programs.
The authors draw on careful analysis to predict a global aging of population as an unprecedented demographic transformation.
This transformation is both certain and lasting. It will not be reversed in our lifetime.
It will have major social, economic and political effects.
Currently, most pundits seem to assume that US global influence will diminish in the future. This report argues that the US will have more - not less - influence and responsibility in the global order over the next fifty years.
University leaders spend too much time thinking about short-term challenges. We focus too much on the needs and experience of "traditional" students (ages 18-25). This work reminds us that universities will operate in a very different future world, and we will need to make more space for lifelong learning.
Download an excellent summary of this book here.
