How Rome Fell And The Moral For The USA -- A Commentary

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From Professor Bainbridge:

I've been reading with great interest Adrian Goldsworthy's new book, How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower. It's an instructive tale of how the Roman Empire's failure to develop a succession process with social legitimacy led to a series of debilitating civil wars, which left the empire too weak to fend off outsiders. The conclusion draws some obvious parallels with the fate of subsequent empires, including the British and American:

Nothing suggests that the United States must inevitably decline and cease to be a superpower in the near future. ... This certainly does not mean that America can afford to be complacent.

The Roman experience suggests that imperial decline is likely to start at the top.

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