Why empires fall

• Verfasst von: Heather, Peter J. [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Rapley, John [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Why empires fall
• Titelzusatz: Rome, America and the future of the West
• Verf.angabe: Peter Heather and John Rapley
• Verlagsort: [London]
• Verlag: Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books
• Jahr: 2023
• Umfang: v, 188 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Karten, Diagramme
• ISBN: 978-0-241-40749-3
• Schlagwörter: (g)Römisches Reich / (s)Niedergang / (s)Kulturverfall
• Schlagwörter: (g)Westliche Welt / (s)Zivilisation / (s)Imperialismus / (z)Geschichte 399-1999
• Schlagwörter: (s)Zusammenbruch / (s)Staat / (s)Imperialismus / (s)DesintegrationSoziologie / (s)Weltordnung / (s)Politischer Wandel / (s)Internationales politisches System / (s)Geschichte / (g)Erde / (g)Westliche Welt / (g)USA
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: Ancient history: to c 500 CE
• Sach-SW: Antike
• Sach-SW: General & world history
• Sach-SW: Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte
• Sach-SW: HISTORY / Ancient / Rome
• Sach-SW: HISTORY / Civilization
• Sach-SW: HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
• Sach-SW: HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century
• Sach-SW: HISTORY / United States / 21st Century
• Sach-SW: HISTORY / World
• Sach-SW: History of ideas
• Sach-SW: Ideengeschichte, Geistesgeschichte
• Sach-SW: Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
• Sach-SW: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Economic Conditions
• Sach-SW: Political economy
• Zeit-SW: 20th century
• Zeit-SW: 21. Jahrhundert (2000 bis 2100 n. Chr.)
• Zeit-SW: 21st century
• Zeit-SW: Zweite Hälfte 20. Jahrhundert (1950 bis 1999 n. Chr.)
• Zeit-SW: ca. 1 bis ca. 500 n. Chr
• K10plus-PPN: 1852230568

Abstract

Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium, history reversed. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division, the West has found itself in rapid decline. This is not the first time the global order has witnessed such a dramatic rise and fall. The Roman Empire followed a similar arc from dizzying power to disintegration - a fact that is more than a strange historical coincidence. In Why Empires Fall, historian Peter Heather and political economist John Rapley use this Roman past to think anew about the contemporary West, its state of crisis, and what paths we could take out of it. In this exceptional, transformative intervention, Heather and Rapley explore the uncanny parallels - and productive differences - between the two cases, moving beyond the familiar tropes of invading barbarians and civilizational decay to learn new lessons from ancient history. From 399 to 1999, the life cycles of empires, they argue, sow the seeds of their inevitable destruction. The era of western global domination has reached its end - so what comes next?