Lance Morrow reviews Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance — and Why They Fall by Yale Law School professor Amy Chua (left). It sounds like a fascinating read with a thesis that ought to agree with the West:
Chua argues that all of the world-dominant powers in history — among them, Achaemenid Persia, imperial Rome, Tang Dynasty China, the Mongol empire, the Dutch commercial empire of the 17th century, the British Empire and hegemonic America — prospered by a strategy of tolerance and inclusion, the embrace (and exploitation) of diversity and difference.