![]() ![]() People who have their eye on short-term, contemporary events and the world around us tend to forget this. It contains the seeds of its own destruction.” Brilliant. ![]() He says, “The body politic, like the body of a man, begins to die as soon as it is born. The key quotation is from Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Sooner or later they fall apart and are replaced by something else. States always collapse and disappear, sometimes very quickly, sometimes after centuries or millennia, but they have a finite term in any part of the world. Not just kingdoms but empires, republics – polities of any sort which have ceased to exist. Will you begin by telling us about your book, Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations, and what these “vanished kingdoms” are? Foreign Policy & International Relations. ![]()
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