Demographically mature societies lack the vitality to be expansionist

Evidence

If an arrangement emerges along these or similar lines, neither Russia nor the West is likely to pose any longer-term security challenge to the other. Europe and Russia are demographically mature societies with low birth rates and aging populations; such societies do not have the youthful vigor to be expansionist and offensively oriented. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 671

Categorization

• XREF: Builds on the demographic-youth argument Huntington makes about Islam’s youth bulge and the ‘youth bulge’ theory of civil conflict in political demography. — connects to: Maturation into the universal is achieved only at the cost of vitality — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 299
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 671