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The Roman Predicament
Princeton Professor Harold James has written a book titled
The Roman Predicament: How the Rules of International Order Create the Politics of Empire.
From HOW THE PRESENT ECONOMIC ORDER WILL END by J. R. Nyquist
Of course, the American empire isn’t bloody or coercive. It isn’t the empire of the gun. It is the empire of the dollar, of blue jeans, McDonalds and Coca-Cola.
Chaos will come, whether we want it or not. Nobody can smooth all the wrinkles out of the world economy, and the reign of the dollar cannot last forever.
America’s enemies abroad, and those whose envy leads them to an uncharitable assessment of the United States and its motives, will grasp at any opportunity to knock the dollar off its perch. This opportunity is sure to come, and it will probably come in the next few years.
Globalization, led by the United States, will be reversed. The world is not destined to become a global village because man is a tribal animal.
His trust of others, especially his trust of foreign peoples, is limited. Consequently, the U.S. economy will be shaken to its foundations, and the patterns of consumption known to Americans will finally prove unsustainable. The integration of the various national economies into a global economy is a utopian project, and those most invested in this project will be most hurt. The integration of country with country cannot advance beyond a certain phase. Globalization will be stopped by ethnic, national and religious antagonisms. James calls this process “the victory of Mars.” All previous globalization attempts in history, he explained, “almost always end with wars.”
This book cites 76 books:
* The Wealth of Nations (Bantam Classics) by Adam Smith on 12 pages
* The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon on 5 pages
* The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-3 (Everyman's Library) by Edward Gibbon on 5 pages
* Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon on 5 pages
* The Road to Serfdom (Routledge Classics S.) by F.A. Hayek on page 37, and Back Matter
The EU was beginning to develop a quasi-Roman idea of itself as a kind of soft imperial force, spreading its system to the whole European continent or even – in the dreams of some of its wilder adherents – the world.
Anatol Lieven, Financial Times, 28/6 2005