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Paul Kennedy

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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers Redux

The author of the 20th century’s most influential history book anticipates the coming world order.

by Paul Kennedy via New Statesman
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on September 20, 2023

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000

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A bald eagle perches on an anthropomorphized mournful looking Earth.

The Lamps Are Going Out

America must look to examples from history and be careful of engaging in catastrophic imperial overreach.

by Christopher Caldwell via Claremont Review of Books on April 1, 2026

Trump turns his back to look out the window in a meeting with oil and gas industry executives.

Accelerating American (and Planetary) Decline

A Talmudic tale of an attempt to cheat death is a metaphor for the Trump's attempts to portray U.S. empire as alive and well.

by Alfred W. McCoy via Tom Dispatch on February 22, 2026

Picture of soldiers from WWI.

There Is More War in the Classroom Than You Think

Hitchcock and Herwig discuss their findings on the teaching of war in higher education.

by William I. Hitchcock, Meghan Herwig via War on the Rocks on September 7, 2021

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