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Country
  
United States

Media type
  
hardcover

ISBN
  
978-1-59698-273-4

Originally published
  
September 2011

Page count
  
256

Publisher
  
Regnery Publishing

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Publication date
  
September 2011

Pages
  
256

Dewey Decimal
  
CB151.G64 2011

Author
  
David P. Goldman

Genre
  
Non-fiction

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How Civilizations Die (And Why Islam Is Dying Too) is a book written by the Jewish author and economist David P.Goldman, published on September 19, 2011 by Regnery Publishing. It discusses the declining in birthrates of both Europe and Islamic nations. In his view the decline in birthrates leads to the passive attitude of Europe, and the aggressive and violent attitude of the Islamic world, not from a stand of power, but from a point of desperate action. Most of the book is based on articles he published under the pseudonym "Spengler" on the Asia Times newspaper.

Book Structure

The book consists three parts:

  • Part 1: The Decline of the East – the declining birthrates of the Islamic world, Goldman claims that the Islamic fundamentalism terrorism is motivated by the feeling that the Islamic world is on an edge of demographic collapse, which will lead to an economic,and cultural disaster in Islamic nations.
  • Part 2: Theopolitics – the reasons behind the birthrates decline such as Postnationalism.
  • Part 3: Why it won't be a Post-American world – Goldman claims that United States is the only big nation which isn't facing a demographic collapse, and thus promises it stability and strength.
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