The Rise and Fall and Rise of Declinism
Thursday, May 29th, 2008[As posted at Rising BRICSAM]
The conversation about BRICSAM takes place against the backdrop of assessments about the international system. And the problem is that there is an ever-present cottage industry extrapolating from short term dynamics to make sweeping generalizations about the course of history, and it is typically wrong. Put differently, we are experiencing yet [...]