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DECLINE of EMPIRES: The Signs of Decay
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Chalmers Johnson, author of Blowback and Sorrows of Empire, lectures on parallels between the decline of the Roman and Soviet empires and the United States. He argues the US shows the same symptoms: overextension, corruption, and an inability to reform.
Cited in threads on American decline, civil unrest and economic crisis as a classic statement of the imperial-decay thesis.
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