The phrase Pax Americana carries with it a certain late-imperial confidence, as though history itself had been provisionally ...

"The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire" represents one more attempt to research and analyse this sequence of historical events but generation after generation of imperialistic and ambitious leaders ...

Every empire believes itself to be eternal. This faith in its own permanence spans history, from the colonial age to as far back as the classical civilisations. Rome spoke not of empire but of destiny ...