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Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance - and Why They Fall
Day of Empire- How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance - and Why They Fall.gif hardcover cover
Author Amy Chua
Country United States
Language English
Subject imperialism - history, hegemony - history
Genre 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.

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1 Summary
2 External links
2.1 Reviews
2.2 Other discussion
Summary[edit]
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 as a current 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[edit]
Doubleday (publisher) book web page
Reviews[edit]
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[edit]
Interview with Chua by Harry Kreisler of the Institute of International Studies
After Words interview with Chua on Day of Empire, December 29, 2007
Categories: 2007 booksBooks by Amy ChuaPolitical
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