How Civilizations Die: (And Why Islam Is Dying Too)

by David Goldman

Overview

You’ve heard about the Death of the West.
But the Muslim world is on the brink of an even greater collapse.

WILL WE GO DOWN IN THE IMPLOSION?

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 else—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 collapse— 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 worldwide—reveals how, almost unnoticed, massive shifts in global power are remaking our future.

Goldman reveals:

• How extinctions of peoples, cultures, and civilizations are not unthinkable—but certain
• How for the first time in world history, the birthrate in the West has fallen below replacement level
• Why birthrates in the Muslim world are falling even faster
• Why the “Arab Spring” is the precursor of much more violent change in the Islamic world
• Why looming demographic collapse may encourage Islamic terrorists to “go for broke”
• How the United States can survive the coming world turmoil
  

In How Civilizations Die, David P. Goldman has written an essential book for understanding what lies in the future for America and the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781596982734
Publisher:	Skyhorse Publishing
Publication date:	09/19/2011
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	442,976
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

David Paul Goldman is an American economist, music critic, and author, best known for his series of online essays in the Asia Times under the pseudonym Spengler.

Table of Contents

The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse ix

Part 1 The Decline of the East

Chapter 1 The closing of the Muslim Womb 1

Chapter 2 Faith, Fertility, and the World's Future 15

Chapter 3 What the Arab Revolutions Mean 27

Chapter 4 Sex, Drugs, and Islam 45

Chapter 5 "They Want to Destroy the Turkish Nation!" 53

Chapter 6 The End of Traditional Muslim Society 73

Chapter 7 The Islamist Response 89

Part 2 Theopolitics

Chapter 8 Civilizational Failure and Suicide 99

Chapter 9 Four Great Extinctions 115

Chapter 10 Islam: The Arabs as Chosen People 137

Chapter 11 How Christianity Died in Europe 157

Chapter 12 Why Some Religion Fails in the Modern World 177

Part 3 Why It Won't Be a Post-American World

Chapter 13 Passing the Acid Test of Modernity 191

Chapter 14 Europe's Ruin and America's Founding 205

Chapter 15 Can American Democracy Be Exported? 229

Chapter 16 The Morality of Self-Interest 249

Acknowledgments 269

Notes 271

Index 289

Editorial Reviews

Praise for How Civilizations Die

“In How Civilizations Die , David Goldman muses on population trends and religion with a breathtaking depth, originality, and panache. Some of his startling but documented predictions: Europe is in its death throes. Muslim demographic collapse will undercut Islamic triumphalism. The United States and Israel will emerge triumphant. And that’s just the start.”
—DANIEL PIPES, President of the Middle East Forum and Taube Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University

“Oswald Spengler’s Decline of the West was required reading when I was a college student and David Goldman’s contemporary argument should be required reading today.”
—HERB LONDON, President Emeritus of the Hudson Institute

“David Goldman has explored the political implications of demography with rare insight. How Civilizations Die (and Why Islam Is Dying Too) is a mind expanding peek into the likely political future of our planet.”
—MARY ANN GLENDON, Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard University

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