The Attitudes of Collapsing Empires — Louinel Jean

What do Rome, the British Empire, and the modern American order have in common? They each displayed the same attitudes before their decline — denial, hubris, and an inability to read the signals their own history was sending.

The Attitudes of Collapsing Empires is a 222-page scholarly work drawing on the foundational thinkers of historical cycles — Gibbon, Ibn Khaldun, Toynbee, Spengler, Turchin, and Dalio — to identify the recurring patterns that precede imperial collapse and apply them to the present moment.

Across fourteen chapters, author Louinel Jean examines the economics of dissolution, the sociology of elite decay, the politics of institutional erosion, the role of artificial intelligence in accelerating decline, and — crucially — the view from the Global South, including Haiti's experience as a nation that has lived on the receiving end of imperial attitudes for two centuries.

This is not a book about the past. It is a diagnostic framework for reading the present.

What's inside:

• The psychology of civilizational hubris
• Debt, debasement, and the fiscal spiral
• Elite overproduction and institutional memory loss
• Seven signals for reading imperial decline today
• Dollar hegemony and the coming multipolar order
• AI as a new architecture of imperial decay
• Haiti and the cost of imperial attitudes

Format: Digital PDF download — 222 pages
Author: Louinel Jean, Doctorand | UNITAR Diplomat