Like Jared Diamond in "Guns, Germs, and Steel," Peter Turchin in
"War and Peace and War" uses his expertise in evolutionary biology
to make a highly original argument about the rise and fall of
empires.
Turchin argues that the key to the formation of an empire is a
society's capacity for collective action. He demonstrates that high
levels of cooperation are found where people have to band together
to fight off a common enemy, and that this kind of cooperation led
to the formation of the Roman and Russian empires, and the United
States. But as empires grow, the rich get richer and the poor get
poorer, conflict replaces cooperation, and dissolution inevitably
follows. Eloquently argued and rich with historical examples, "War
and Peace and War" offers a bold new theory about the course of
world history.
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