How Civilizations Die
(And Why Islam Is Dying Too)
Published on 19. September 2011
256 pages
978-1-59698-280-2 (ISBN)
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Thanks to collapsing birthrates, much of Europe is on a path of willed self-extinction. The untold story is that birthrates in Muslim nations are declining faster than anywhere elseâ??at a rate never before documented. Europe, even in its decline, may have the resources to support an aging population, if at a terrible economic and cultural cost. But in the impoverished Islamic world, an aging population means a civilization on the brink of total collapseâ?? something Islamic terrorists know and fear. Muslim decline poses new threats to America, challenges we cannot even understand, much less face effectively, without a wholly new kind of political analysis that explains how desperate peoples and nations behave. In How Civilizations Die, David P. Goldman, author of the celebrated Spengler column read by intelligence organizations world wide, ??reveals how, almost unnoticed, massive shifts in global power are remaking our future.
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Content
- Intro
- Praise
- Praise
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Introduction
- PART ONE - THE DECLINE OF THE EAST
- CHAPTER 1 - THE CLOSING OF THE MUSLIM WOMB
- Demographics and Desperation
- CHAPTER 2 - FAITH, FERTILITY, AND THE WORLD'S FUTURE
- Why the "Overpopulation" Scare Was an Aberration
- Faith and the Fertility Shift
- What Determines Fertility?
- CHAPTER 3 - WHAT THE ARAB REVOLUTIONS MEAN
- Tunisia's Lost Generation
- Famine Stalks Egypt
- Eurabia or Eu-grave-ia?
- CHAPTER 4 - SEX , DRUGS , AND ISLAM
- Oil Runs Out as the Iranian Bulge Generation Retires
- CHAPTER 5 - "THEY WANT TO DESTROY THE TURKISH NATION!"
- CHAPTER 6 - THE END OF TRADITIONAL MUSLIM SOCIETY
- Wife-Beating as a Religious Practice
- Honor Killings, Genital Mutilation, and Cousin Marriages
- The Crisis of Criticism
- CHAPTER 7 - THE ISLAMIST RESPONSE
- Can Islam Take the West Down with It?
- PART TWO - THEOPOLITICS
- CHAPTER 8 - CIVILIZATIONAL FAILURE AND SUICIDE
- Suicidal Resistance in War
- Irrational Resistance in the American Civil War
- Preempting a Desperate Opponent
- A Case Study in Preemption: Russia and the Cold War
- The Ambitions of the Persian Empire
- CHAPTER 9 - FOUR GREAT EXTINCTIONS
- The Gods That Failed
- Classical Extinction in a Nineteenth-Century Mirror
- CHAPTER 10 - ISLAM: THE ARABS AS CHOSEN PEOPLE
- The Theology of Submission versus the Theology of Love
- A God of Love Is a God of Laws
- Failure and Faith
- Tawhid and Totality
- Vicarious Sacrifice versus Personal Sacrifice: The Eucharist and Jihad
- CHAPTER 11 - HOW CHRISTIANITY DIED IN EUROPE
- Contending Understandings of Election, and the Ruin of Europe
- CHAPTER 12 - WHY SOME RELIGION FAILS IN THE MODERN WORLD
- Quebec: The Final Bastion of French Messianism
- Poland, "The Christ Among the Nations"
- The Wearing Out of the Green
- The Sudden Death of Spanish Religion
- PART THREE - WHY IT WON'T BE A POST-AMERICAN WORLD
- CHAPTER 13 - PASSING THE ACID TEST OF MODERNITY
- Religion and American Fertility
- Exceptional Israel
- CHAPTER 14 - EUROPE'S RUIN AND AMERICA'S FOUNDING
- The Almost-Chosen People and Its Almost-Tragedy
- The Future of American Religion
- American Christianity in the Global South
- CHAPTER 15 - CAN AMERICAN DEMOCRACY BE EXPORTED?
- The Operation Was Successful, but the Patient Died
- Elective Antipathies in the Muslim World
- Do Muslims Want American-Style Democracy?
- Is the American Way Better?
- Sometimes, Optimism Really Is Cowardice
- CHAPTER 16 - THE MORALITY OF SELF-INTEREST
- Augustinian Realism
- The Emperor Has No Clothes, and the Empire Has No Tailors
- Engaging Success and Ring-Fencing Failure
- Acknowledgments
- NOTES
- INDEX
- Copyright Page
