The demographic struggle for power : the political economy of demographic engineering in the modern world / Milica Zarkovic Bookman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. The Demographic Struggle for Power -- 3. Demographic Statistics: What They Reveal, What They Conceal -- 4. Pronatalist Policies -- 5. Involuntary and Induced Assimilation -- 6. Forced Population Movements: Ethnic Dilution, Ethnic Consolidation and Ethnic Cleansing -- 7. Demographic Change Through Boundary Alterations: Secession and Irredentism -- 8. Economic Pressures and Incentives Underlying Demographic Change -- 9. The Political Economy of Engineered Demographic Change -- App. Brief Description of Ethnicity and Inter-ethnic Conflict in Selected Regions.

Throughout history there have been struggles for territory and control of its resources, and occasionally these struggles have been based on ethnicity. Such struggles among ethnic groups manifest themselves in various ways. On one level, violent wars are being waged as populations attempt to achieve military supremacy and power.