The Ruins of Empire in the Middle East
Imperialism may have fallen out of fashion, but history shows that the only other option is the kind of chaos we see today.
BY MAY 25, 2015
Though imperialism is now held in disrepute, empire has been the default means of governance for most of recorded history, and the collapse of empires has always been messy business, whether in China and India from antiquity through the early 20th century or in Europe following World War I.
