(1)SYPNOSIS:
1(a) Thesis Statement:
International security is going to face a drastic change in the coming years, it will depend less on how many people inhabit the world than on how the global population is composed and distributed. There will be more weight put on declining and growing populations, the ages of these populations, and how they are composed demographically.

(1b) Outline
What is the state of international security at this time?
- power lays with developed countries, with maintainable populations
- developing countries are drastically growing “where policing, sanitation and healthcare are often scarce”
- relationships between the western “superpowers” and the emerging of Islamic youths from the middle east are rocky at best

How is the state of international security going to shift?
- the demographic weight of the world’s developed countries is going to drop, which will cause the economic power to shift onto developing countries
- the world’s population will become urbanized with the largest urban centers in the world’s poorest countries How can we make this a smooth shift?
- the world’s youth are concentrated in poorer, developing countries and developed countries should be prepared to educate and employ them
- developed countries should be open to international immigration
- reconsider the structure of global institutions such as the G-8, G-20 and NATO
- developed countries should encourage families to have more children to keep the population more distributed rather than concentrated in developing countries

(2) CONNECTIONS

- Environment
This article does not discuss environment in any significant detail.

- Culture (Religion)
This article discusses culture in the context of religion (Muslim and Western Culture) when it hints at the rapidly growing Muslim population globally. It mentions improving