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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
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David P Goldman |
ISBN: | 9781596982734 159698273X |
OCLC Number: | 698332796 |
Description: | xxiii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The fifth horseman of the Apocalypse -- pt. 1: The decline of the East. The closing of the Muslim womb ; Faith, fertility, and the world's future ; What the Arab revolutions mean ; Sex, drugs, and Islam ; "They want to destroy the Turkish nation!" ; The end of traditional Muslim society ; The Islamist response -- pt. 2: Theopolitics. Civilizational failure and suicide ; Four great extinctions ; Islam: the Arabs as chosen people ; How Christianity died in Europe ; Why some religion fails in the modern world -- pt. 3: Why it won't be a post-American world. Passing the acid test of modernity ; Europe's ruin and America's founding ; Can American democracy be exported? ; The morality of self-interest. |
Responsibility: | David P. Goldman. |
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Praise for How Civilizations Die "In How Civilizations Die, David Goldman muses on population trends and religion with a breathtaking depth, originality, and panache. Some of his startling but documented predictions: Europe is in its death throes. Muslim demographic collapse will undercut Islamic triumphalism. The United States and Israel will emerge triumphant. And that's just the start." -DANIEL PIPES, President of the Middle East Forum and Taube Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University "Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West was required reading when I was a college student and David Goldman's contemporary argument should be required reading today." -HERB LONDON, President Emeritus of the Hudson Institute "David Goldman has explored the political implications of demography with rare insight. How Civilizations Die (and Why Islam Is Dying Too) is a mind expanding peek into the likely political future of our planet." -MARY ANN GLENDON, Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard University Read more...
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Arresting, thought provoking book
Goldman contends there is a nexus of faith, culture and demography that is turning out the lights on Europe, Japan, and -- surprise -- most of Islam. He may be correct, but there is danger in projecting trends 50 to 100 years into the future. It may well be that as various regions become...
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Goldman contends there is a nexus of faith, culture and demography that is turning out the lights on Europe, Japan, and -- surprise -- most of Islam. He may be correct, but there is danger in projecting trends 50 to 100 years into the future. It may well be that as various regions become less populated, people will change their habits. Strategically, the implications are that the US should undertake crash development of shale oil, offshore oil, any oil to pull the price down. If the price of oil falls, Iran will fail catastrophically. Most important book I have read in three years.
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