"An empire must defend territory already secured and then extend control over those who live beyond its borders, who chafe against the terms of exchange between them and the empire. The underlying motive of empire builders is the desire to control the terms of trade. The empire's strategy of controlling the terms of trade is always in some way geography-based. This is the essence of empire.
There are two ways for a State to gain cooperation: coercion or purchase. An empire uses both techniques over its own citizens in order to gain their cooperation in its extension of control over the terms of trade outside its borders. The empire buys off special interest voting blocs at home with money extracted from the broad mass of citizens on threat of negative sanctions against those who resist paying taxes.
Foreign aid is a form of empire-building. So is war.
(...) The central factor of the demise of empire is cost. It costs too much to organize an empire in comparison to the cost of undermining it. When costs change, production changes.(...)" There Are Two Ways To Gain Cooperation by Gary North
PS: A minha bola de cristal diz-me que como tendência do próximo milénio, e após os impérios externos, serão os internos (centralismo democrático ou outro) a terem que obedecer às imutáveis leis económicas e da natureza humana e social.
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