In his book War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires, Peter Turchin illustrates the role of group cohesion in the success of nations.
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According to several historians, polarization is one of the major symptoms of civilizational decline. How and why is this so?
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Big picture students of history know that empires and civilizations rise and then fall. American scholar William Ophuls explains in his book Immoderate Greatness that their own success undermines them, and that the process of collapse is unavoidable.
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Sir John Bagot Glubb, a little-known British soldier with long ties to the Middle East, wrote a manifesto about the rise and fall of empires that should be on everyone’s reading list.
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