Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance

Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance - and Why They Fall
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Author(s)	Amy Chua
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject(s)	imperialism - history, hegemony - history
Genre(s)	political science - history and theory
Publisher	Doubleday
Publication date	October 2007
Media type	eBook, hardcover
Pages	432
ISBN	978-0-385-52412-4 (eBook) 978-0-385-51284-8 (hardcover)

Yale Law School professor Amy Chua published her second book Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance - and Why They Fall in 2007.

Summary

The book discusses examples of "hyperpowers" throughout human history. Chua describes in rough chronological order the hyperpowers, from the Achaemenid Persian Empire to the British Empire, with reflections on the United States of America as a current^[update] hyperpower. The empires of Rome, the Tang, the Mongols and the Dutch provide examples of successful hegemonies, while the failures of imperial Spain, Nazi Germany and the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere counterpoint them. Chua argues that preconditions for hyperpower status include tolerance of ethnic divisions, and that preconditions for its loss include either a growing intolerance by the traditional ruling élites or a failure to "glue" together the subject peoples into an overarching identity.

External links

• Doubleday (publisher) book web page

Reviews

• Los Angeles Times review by Daniel Kurtz-Phelan, 11 November 2007
• New York Times review by Lance Morrow, 18 November 2007
• Salon review by Andrew O'Hehir, 19 November 2007

Other discussion

• Interview with Chua by Harry Kreisler of the Institute of International Studies