Widely reviewed and critically praised, Emmanuel Todd's After the Empire predicts that the United States is forfeiting its superpower status as it moves away from traditional democratic values of egalitarianism and universalism, lives far beyond its means economically, and continues to anger foreign allies and enemies alike with its military and ideological policies. As America's global dominance evaporates, Todd foresees the emergence of a Eurasian alliance bringing together Europe, Russia, Japan, and the Arab-Islamic world. Todd calmly and straightforwardly takes stock of many negative trends, including America's weakened commitment to the socio-economic integration of African Americans, a bulimic economy that increasingly relies on smoke and mirrors and the goodwill of foreign investors, and a foreign policy that squanders the country's reserves of "soft power" while its militaristic arsonist-fireman behavior is met with increasing resistance. Written by a demographer and historian who foresaw the collapse of the Soviet Union, this original and daring book cannot be ignored.

After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)

History

Todd, Emmanuel

Americas

Columbia University Press

We are told that Western/Christian and Muslim/Arab civilizations are heading towards inevitable conflict. The demographics of the West remain sluggish, while the population of the Muslim world explodes, widening the cultural gap and all but guaranteeing the outbreak of war. Leaving aside the media's sound and fury on this issue, measured analysis shows another reality taking shape: rapprochement between these two civilizations, benefiting from a universal movement with roots in the Enlightenment. The historical and geographical sweep of this book discredits the notion of a specific Islamic demography. The range of fertility among Muslim women, for example, is as varied as religious behavior among Muslims in general. Whether agnostics, fundamentalist Salafis, or al-Qaeda activists, Muslims are a diverse group that prove the variety and individuality of Islam. Youssef Courbage and Emmanuel Todd consider different degrees of literacy, patriarchy, and defensive reactions among minority Muslim populations, underscoring the spread of massive secularization throughout the Arab and Muslim world. In this regard, they argue, there is very little to distinguish the evolution of Islam from the history of Christianity, especially with Muslims now entering a global modernity. Sensitive to demographic variables and their reflection of personal and social truths, Courbage and Todd upend a dangerous meme: that we live in a fractured world close to crisis, struggling with an epidemic of closed cultures and minds made different by religion.

A Convergence of Civilizations: The Transformation of Muslim Societies Around the World

Courbage, Youssef

Middle East

We are told that Western/Christian and Muslim/Arab civilizations are heading towards inevitable conflict. The demographics of the West remain sluggish, while the population of the Muslim world explodes, widening the cultural gap and all but guaranteeing the outbreak of war. Leaving aside the media's sound and fury on this issue, measured analysis shows another reality taking shape: rapprochement between these two civilizations, benefiting from a universal movement with roots in the Enlightenment. The historical and geographical sweep of this book discredits the notion of a specific Islamic demography. The range of fertility among Muslim women, for example, is as varied as religious behavior among Muslims in general. Whether agnostics, fundamentalist Salafis, or al-Qaeda activists, Muslims are a diverse group that prove the variety and individuality of Islam. Youssef Courbage and Emmanuel Todd consider different degrees of literacy, patriarchy, and defensive reactions among minority Muslim populations, underscoring the spread of massive secularization throughout the Arab and Muslim world. In this regard, they argue, there is very little to distinguish the evolution of Islam from the history of Christianity, especially with Muslims now entering a global modernity. Sensitive to demographic variables and their reflection of personal and social truths, Courbage and Todd upend a dangerous meme: that we live in a fractured world close to crisis, struggling with an epidemic of closed cultures and minds made different by religion.

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The explanation of ideology: Family structures and social systems (Family, sexuality, and social relations in past times)

Parenting & Relationships

Blackwell*publishers

Compares the development of different regions of the world, discusses the importance of literacy for cultural change, and examines the cultural effects of parental authority and the status of women

The Causes of Progress: Culture, Authority, and Change (Family Sexuality and Social Relations in Past Times)

Boulind, Richard

Blackwell Pub.

Some parts of the world are dominated by communism, others by Catholicism or by Islam and yet others by liberal doctrines. Why should this be? And why has communism triumphed in Russia, China and Cuba, yet failed in Poland, Cambodia and Indonesia? No one knows. Certainly no clear answer lies in variation of climate, environment, race or, even, economic development. The argument of this book is that world variations in social ideology and belief are conditioned by family structure. The author analyzes the distribution of family forms throughout the world, and examines the relations between particular structures, and (for example) communism, totalitarianism and individualism, as well as the links between these forms and a variety of social phenomena - illegitimacy, suicide, infanticide, marital stability and inheritance laws. He offers evidence to support the belief that family structures and kinship patterns lie behind the ideologies that have shaped the history of the 20th century.

The Explanation of Ideology: Family Structure and Social Systems (Family, Sexuality and Social Relations in Past Times)

Garrioch, David

Historical Study & Educational Resources

The Making of Modern France: Ideology, Politics and Culture

This is an investigation of the state of French society. France, arguably the most influential member of the European Community, its economy booming and institutions stable, appears in short to be a nation confident in its strength and sure of its future. Emmanuel Todd's argument is that between 1980 and 1990 France has undergone a revolution comparable in force to the Revolution of 1789 and with consequences of a depth equal to those of industrialization. The Communist Party, heir to the egalitarian values of the Revolution, has fallen apart. The traditional working class proletariat and peasantry are rapidly becoming extinct. The parties of the Right have lost touch with the values of Roman Catholicism. The Church itself, guardian of French familial and social values for a thousand years, is dying, its influence negligible and its pronouncements all but ignored. There is an emptiness at the heart of French political and social life, compounded by the gap between the material prosperity of the middle classes and the limited life chances of the native and immigrant poor. France, the author shows, is at once the product of its past and yet now dislocated from it - hence vulnerable (if only for a time) to the aberrant racist ideology of the extreme right. Emmanuel Todd's analysis of the state and the regions of France extends back through the centuries to present an account of contemporary society that has had a considerable impact since its publication in Paris in 1988. This updated edition, the first to appear in English should be welcomed by anyone wishing to understand the nature of one of Europe's greatest nations.

Europe

This is an investigation of the state of French society. France, arguably the most influential member of the European Community, its economy booming and institutions stable, appears in short to be a nation confident in its strength and sure of its future. Emmanuel Todd's argument is that between 1980 and 1990 France has undergone a revolution comparable in force to the Revolution of 1789 and with consequences of a depth equal to those of industrialization. The Communist Party, heir to the egalitarian values of the Revolution, has fallen apart. The traditional working class proletariat and peasantry are rapidly becoming extinct. The parties of the Right have lost touch with the values of Roman Catholicism. The Church itself, guardian of French familial and social values for a thousand years, is dying, its influence negligible and its pronouncements all but ignored. There is an emptiness at the heart of French political and social life, compounded by the gap between the material prosperity of the middle classes and the limited life chances of the native and immigrant poor. France, the author shows, is at once the product of its past and yet now dislocated from it - hence vulnerable (if only for a time) to the aberrant racist ideology of the extreme right. Emmanuel Todd's analysis of the state and the regions of France extends back through the centuries to present an account of contemporary society that has had a considerable impact since its publication in Paris in 1988. This updated edition, the first to appear in English should be welcomed by anyone wishing to understand the nature of one of Europe's greatest nations.

World

Who is Charlie?: Xenophobia and the New Middle Class

In the wake of the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris on 7 January 2015, millions took to the streets to demonstrate their revulsion, expressing a desire to reaffirm the ideals of the French Republic: liberté, égalité, fraternité. But who were the millions of demonstrators who were suddenly united under the single cry of ‘Je suis Charlie’? In this probing new book, Emmanuel Todd investigates the cartography and sociology of the three to four million who marched in Paris and across France and draws some unsettling conclusions. For while they claimed to support liberal, republican values, the real middle classes who marched on that day of indignant protest also had a quite different programme in mind, one that was far removed from their proclaimed ideal. Their deep values were in fact more reminiscent of the most depressing aspects of France’s national history: conservatism, selfishness, domination and inequality. By identifying the anthropological, religious, economic and political forces that brought France to the edge of the abyss, Todd reveals the real dangers posed to all western societies when the interests of privileged middle classes work against marginalised and immigrant groups. Should we really continue to mistreat young people, force the children of immigrants to live on the outskirts of our cities, consign the poorer classes to the remoter parts of the country, demonise Islam, and allow the growth of an ever more menacing anti-Semitism? While asking uncomfortable questions and offering no easy solutions, Todd points to the difficult and uncertain path that might lead to an accommodation with Islam rather than a deepening and divisive confrontation.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Polity

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After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)

After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)

A Convergence of Civilizations: The Transformation of Muslim Societies Around the World

A Convergence of Civilizations: The Transformation of Muslim Societies Around the World

The explanation of ideology: Family structures and social systems (Family, sexuality, and social relations in past times)

The Causes of Progress: Culture, Authority, and Change (Family Sexuality and Social Relations in Past Times)

The Explanation of Ideology: Family Structure and Social Systems (Family, Sexuality and Social Relations in Past Times)

The Making of Modern France: Ideology, Politics and Culture

The Making of Modern France: Ideology, Politics and Culture

Who is Charlie?: Xenophobia and the New Middle Class