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

'Fascinating  informative and deeply thoughtful' Financial Times'This essay has changed my view
both of the past and the present' Carlo Rovelli  The Observer *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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