Tadeusz Kugler

Tadeusz "Tad" Kugler

Population is potential. Who is born, who moves, who goes to school, and who survives a war quietly decide which nations rise and which fall. I study how those everyday choices, made in millions of households, shape and are shaped by national policy, from great-power rivalry to the long recovery after conflict. My work bridges political demography, international relations, and political economy. I am a Senior Fellow with the Organski Institute and a Professor of Political Science at Roger Williams University. I hold a PhD in Economics and Political Science and an MBA from Claremont Graduate University, and a BS in Anthropology from Tulane.

Books

Recent book-length work on demography, power, and international politics.

Power to the Population: The Political Consequences and Causes of Demographic Changes

Power to the Population: The Political Consequences and Causes of Demographic Changes

University of Georgia Press ·

Who is born, who moves, who gets to work, and who survives a war decide the fate of nations. Power to the Population argues that international power is built at home, from the size and organization of a country's people. Ranging from China's coming wave of aging to Syria's refugee crisis and Europe's bet on union, it shows how choices about women's rights, immigration, discrimination, and postwar recovery ripple outward to reshape the global order. Demography is not destiny, but once its trends are in motion they are remarkably hard to reverse.

Power, Space, and Time: An Empirical Introduction to International Relations

Power, Space, and Time: An Empirical Introduction to International Relations

Rowman & Littlefield · · with J. Patrick Rhamey

An introduction to international relations that puts the evidence first. Rhamey and Kugler treat the world as a hierarchy of power that shifts across space and time, and test the field's big theories against the data. The book moves from war, rivalries, and civil conflict through the Cold War, trade, and globalization to the American-led order, deterrence, and the democratic peace. It closes with what Britain's decline can teach a United States facing a rising China.

  • Political Demography
  • International Relations
  • International Political Economy
  • Political Geography
  • Migration
  • Conflict & Peace Studies
  • India, China & Eurasia
  • Religion & Politics