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[6] The Rise of Nations [7] The Rise of Civil Society [8] The Rise of Youth [9] The Rise of Women [10] The Rise of Inequality and Revolts The sum is of the same magnitude as the transformations from Greco-Roman Antiquity to the Middle Ages to Early Modern to Modern (1789) in the West. They unfolded under globalizing christianities; the present ones under globalizing capitalism and global warming. The five global trends may look like a validation of a theory of communicating vessels: when one goes down, the other goes up; West down and the Rest up, USA down and China up. There may be limited space on the top. However, these trends can also be seen, and perhaps better so, as five unrelated phenomena within their own social logic. Thus, trend [1] is about an empire, not about the USA--that part is covered by trend [2] with the USA as part of a West that cannot afford sustainable development. An underdeveloping country; turning the American dream into the American nightmare. However, the decline and ultimate fall of an empire is a different process, related to a seemingly inescapable birth-growth-maturation-aging-death logic of empires as organisms. If well constructed, with ample rewards to cooperating Periphery elites, the Center can extract much economic dependency, fear of force, identity with the Center, and obedience. Yet, only up to a certain point: the empire becomes victim of its own success, overextends and-or underestimates the countervailing power. Expansion comes to an end and a (long) period of status quo, maintaining the highly unjust use in all four senses of injustice of all four forms of power. An empire is an archetype of unjust power, extracting dependency, fear, false identity and obedience by implanting cooperating elites. Occasionally the Periphery fuses with the Center, a process referred to as nation-building when geographically contiguous,
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