War and Peace and War: The Life Cycles of Imperial Nations Quayln Stark Debuted at the 2000 Los

Debuted at the 2000 Los Angeles Religious Education Congress

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War and Peace and War: The Life Cycles of Imperial Nations Quayln Stark Debuted at the 2000 LosLike 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