ABSTRACT
This research examines the major factors of civilizational change that can be systemically observed. Although the "Crisis of the West" has been a topic a broad recognition and extensive dialogue for three centuries, it remains unresolved in several important respects. This research synthesizes the most prominent voices in the dialogue in prior centuries, and examines the crisis of political philosophy that lies at the center of the phenomenon. Political theory has been reduced in this crisis into mere ideology; and the major modern ideologies are classified into a practical framework. The comparative historical approach yields substantive findings for modeling the relational forces shaping regime decline in the West today.
