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Peter Heather & John Rapley: Why Empires Fall Tomas Saraceno Johnson is the ‘artist’s artist’Penguin, 2024, softcover, 208 pages, 19 x 13 cm Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium, history reversed. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division, the West has found itself in rapid decline. This is not the first time the global order has witnessed such a dramatic rise and fall. The Roman Empire followed a similar arc from dizzying power to