7e1803 No.192
Thread for books on the cyclical nature of history.
Heres's Glubb's "Fate of Empires" along with
William Ophuls' Immoderate Greatness(not PDF so can't attach)
http://www75.zippyshare.com/v/34190275/file.html 7e1803 No.664
Mancur Olson's "rise and decline of nations."
Too big so I can't attach.
https://anonfiles.com/file/4d64a4901f7c15d15cdb222582c4d2a8 181697 No.949
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muqaddimah
>The concept of "'asabiyyah" (Arabic: 'tribalism', 'clanism', 'communitarism' or in a modern context 'nationalism') is one of the best known aspects of the Muqaddimah. Ibn Khaldun uses the term Asabiyyah to describe the bond of cohesion among humans in a group forming community. The bond, Asabiyyah, exists at any level of civilization, from nomadic society to states and empires. Asabiyyah is most strong in the nomadic phase, and decreases as civilization advances.[17] As this Asabiyyah declines, another more compelling Asabiyyah may take its place; thus, civilizations rise and fall, and history describes these cycles of Asabiyyah as they play out.
>Ibn Khaldun argues that each dynasty has within itself the seeds of its own downfall. He explains that ruling houses tend to emerge on the peripheries of great empires and use the unity presented by those areas to their advantage in order to bring about a change in leadership. As the new rulers establish themselves at the center of their empire, they become increasingly lax and more concerned with maintaining their lifestyles. Thus, a new dynasty can emerge at the periphery of their control and effect a change in leadership, beginning the cycle anew.
>The British philosopher-anthropologist Ernest Gellner considered Ibn Khaldun's definition of government, "an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself", the best in the history of political theory.