Rise and Fall of Empires
The Rise and Fall of Empires
Peter Turchin does fascinating and innovative work, and has been doing so for the better part of three decades. One of his primary research questions he addresses relates to the rise and fall of empires, which this 2006 book outlines. I earlier reviewed his popular 2023 book. In a sense, this is the foundational thinking […]
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Logan Cochrane
Logan is a Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last twenty years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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