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The Rise of the Western Empire
I like to think of empires as systems rather than things. I've referred to it as a kind of Newton's third law of empires that the functioning of an empire creates an opposite and equal reaction in the world around it. The West can continue to play an outsized role in world history if it forages a common purpose, says John Defterios.
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