Asia's Aging Security

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Full Talk Title: Asia's Aging Security: How Demographic Change Affects America's Allies and Adversaries

Speaker: Andrew L. Oros, Professor of Political Science and International Studies, Washington College, Maryland

Moderator: Andrew Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Columbia University

The talk is based on Oros’s recent book of the same name. Major demographic transitions are underway in Asia and the Pacific. The populations of China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and Russia are aging and shrinking, while India, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Australia, among others, continue to grow. How will these striking changes affect regional security dynamics and the United States–led alliance structure in the Indo-Pacific? Oros considers how technological change is mitigating the drawbacks of aging populations as well as how factors such as autonomous defense systems and artificial intelligence present new challenges.

Speaker's Bio: Andrew L. Oros is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. His latest books, both published by Columbia University Press, are Asia’s Aging Security (2025) and Japan’s Security Renaissance (2017). He has been a visiting research fellow at institutions in Japan, South Korea, and China as well as in Washington, DC. He also serves as an executive editor of the scholarly journal, Asian Security. He earned his Ph.D. in political science at Columbia University.

This event is part of the Andrew J. Nathan Taiwan Lecture Series and is hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.

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