Factors of destabilization and collapse: A comparative study of the Roman and British Empires and the consequences for Western Civilization

This research examines the major factors that contributed toward the decline of the British and Roman Empires and the implications for the U.S.; including economic, security, cultural, and political factors. The comparative historical approach yields substantive findings for modeling the relational forces shaping regime decline in the West today. The cyclical nature of interdependent factors ret1ects that the most significant causal factor is related to theoretical challenge and cont1ict from ideologies and philosophy.