Day of Empire

Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance - and Why They Fall

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Author Amy Chua
Country United States
Language English
Subject imperialism - history, hegemony - history
Genre political science - history and theory
Publisher Doubleday
Publication date
October 2007
Media type eBook, hardcover
Pages 432
ISBN 978-0-385-52412-4 (eBook)
978-0-385-51284-8 (hardcover)

Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance - and Why They Fall is Yale Law School professor Amy Chua's second book.

Summary

The book discusses examples of "hyperpowers" throughout human history. Chua describes in rough chronological order the hyperpowers, from the Achaemenid Persian Empire to the British Empire, with reflections on the United States as a current hyperpower. The empires of Rome, the Tang, the Mongols and the Dutch provide examples of successful hegemonies, while the failures of imperial Spain, Nazi Germany and the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere counterpoint them. Chua argues that preconditions for hyperpower status include tolerance of ethnic divisions, and that preconditions for its loss include either a growing intolerance by the traditional ruling élites or a failure to "glue" together the subject peoples into an overarching identity.

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