Strigunov K.S., Bezverbny V.A. Current Problems of Political Demography and Security Issues. Moscow University Bulletin. Series 12: Political Sciences, 2020, Issue 3, pp. 21-38.

Abstract

The article touches upon the problems of modern political demography both in a broad context and on the example of specific regions. The influence of political decisions taken by individual countries and leading to demographic changes that provoked cascading destructive effects that had catastrophic long-term consequences for entire countries and regions is shown. Using the documents of the US State Department as an example, it is shown how under two different administrations - B. Obama and D. Trump - the attitude to the migration problem in the American establishment in the United States itself changed. The mechanism of destabilization of the Maghreb zone has been disclosed, as a result of which conditions arose for a mass migration outflow. In addition, the study of the collapse of multiculturalism was carried out using the example of the ill-considered policy of European countries when accepting migrants, as a result of which difficulties arose for their integration in an environment with a different ethno-religious composition and socio-cultural characteristics. The conclusion is made about the risk of a systemic and strategic catastrophe in the long term for the entire European society, while maintaining the current policy and approaches in the field of demography and, specifically, migration. Finally, the main damaging factors of migration weapons were identified, the research of which received a powerful impetus after the migration crisis of 2015 in Europe. The mechanism of initiation of an international crisis through the controlled direction of migratory masses to a number of European Union countries to achieve short-term strategic and geopolitical goals is disclosed. The success of the use of large flows of people in the form of a military-political special operation of the international level against a number of state and supranational actors, as well as the scale of the consequences, made it possible to classify the forced and controlled exfiltration of significant masses of people as a new, non-classical weapon of mass destruction. Finally, it is shown that the lack of control in the field of migration carries serious risks for the national security of Russia.