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Bare Branches: The Security Implications of Asia's Surplus Male Population

Bare Branches: The Security Implications of Asia's Surplus Male Population

Hudson, Valerie M.
Den Boer, Andrea M.

Paperback

Series: Belfer Center Studies in International Security

AnthropologyGeneral Asian HistoryGeneral Gender Studies

ISBN10: 0262582643
ISBN13: 9780262582643
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Sep 23 2005
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
What happens to a society that has too many men? In this provocative book, Valerie Hudson and Andrea den Boer argue that, historically, high male-to-female ratios often trigger domestic and international violence. Most violent crime is committed by young unmarried males who lack stable social bonds. Although there is not always a direct cause-and-effect relationship, these surplus men often play a crucial role in making violence prevalent within society. Governments sometimes respond to this problem by enlisting young surplus males in military campaigns and high-risk public works projects. Countries with high male-to-female ratios also tend to develop authoritarian political systems.

Hudson and den Boer suggest that the sex ratios of many Asian countries, particularly China and India--which represent almost 40 percent of the world's population--are being skewed in favor of males on a scale that may be unprecedented in human history. Through offspring sex selection (often in the form of sex-selective abortion and female infanticide), these countries are acquiring a disproportionate number of low-status young adult males, called bare branches by the Chinese.

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