A historian and anthropologist uses demographic and economic factors to explain the waning hegemony of the United States.

Emmanuel Todd presents an analysis of world politics which predicts the decline of US dominance in the near future. He foresees the rise of new alliances of interest, between industrial Europe and Japan on the one hand, and between Russia and the Moslem world on the other.

Product Description: ¿Cómo se constituyó Europa ? ¿Cómo se explica su fundamental diversidad ? ¿Por qué las poblaciones que la componen no vivieron al mismo ritmo y de la misma manera los grandes movimientos históricos del continente como, por ejemplo, la Reforma religiosa, la industrialización, el nacimiento y el fin de las ideologías totalit...read more

Product Description: This is an investigation of the state of French society. France, arguably the most influential member of the European Community, its economy booming and institutions stable, appears in short to be a nation confident in its strength and sure of its future...read more

Product Description: Some parts of the world are dominated by communism, others by Catholicism or by Islam and yet others by liberal doctrines. Why should this be? And why has communism triumphed in Russia, China and Cuba, yet failed in Poland, Cambodia and Indonesia? No one knows...read more

Compares the development of different regions of the world, discusses the importance of literacy for cultural change, and examines the cultural effects of parental authority and the status of women