Is Crisis the General Condition of Empire?

Frida Ghitis: Ferguson is fascinating and totally bewildering. He argues that amid constant chaos, that empire is constantly at risk of coming undone. She says decline exasperates that dynamic in a way that brings it into kind of sharp and toxic focus. Ghitis: The only thing which keeps the world falling apart, is from falling, falling apart,. And without that, then, you know, you'd have these horrifying and absolutely inconceivable alternative orders like russia or china.