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WHY EMPIRES FALL - JOHN RAPLEY PETER HEATHER TA...

What can the fall of Rome teach us about the decline of the West today? A historian and a
political economist  both experts in their field  investigate 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?

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