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66: Peter Turchin - Why Empires Rise & Fall

The Nietzsche Podcast

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The Meta-Ethnic Frontier

Turchin: Not all frontiers are the same, and some are more dynamic than others. He says two empires can be near to one another, but they might not be from the same civilization. Turchin's idea is that wherever these meta-ethnic frontiers exist, you have the most possible friction. And thus the possibility for the greatest political explosion of a new incipient empire," he says.

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