The Armenian genocide showed what could happen when empires were beaten into nations.
Niall FergusonToday, the average Korean works a thousand hours more a year than the average German. A thousand. ... That is the end of the Great Divergence.
Niall FergusonI refuse to accept that Western civilization is like some hopeless old version of Microsoft DOS, doomed to freeze, then crash. I still cling to the hope that the United States is the Mac to Europe's PC, and that if one part of the West can successfully update and reboot itself, it's America.
Niall FergusonAmerican Empire- it is an empire that lacks the drive to export its capital, its people and its culture to those backward regions which need them most urgently and which, if they are neglected, will breed the greatest threats to its security. It is an empire, in short, that dare not speak its name. It is an empire in denial.
Niall Ferguson