Systems Dynamics Follow Their Own Rules – and Not Groupthink

Alastair Crooke- While America’s cultural and economic ascendency is portrayed as an End of History ‘normal’, it represents an obvious anomaly

While America’s cultural and economic ascendency is portrayed as an End of History ‘normal’, it represents an obvious anomaly

Toward the end of his The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (1987), “[Yale Historian] Paul Kennedy expressed the then-controversial belief that great power wars were not a thing of the past. One of the main themes of Kennedy’s history was the concept of overstretch – that is to say, that the relative decline of great powers often resulted from an imbalance between a nation’s resources and its commitments”, writes Professor Francis Sempa.

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