Societies undergo roughly 100-year cycles alternating between integrative phases (characterized by internal peace, order, and rising general population well-being) and disintegrative phases (characterized by political fragmentation, civil conflict, and often violent upheaval).
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Peter TurchinEvidence Quote
“there is an alternation of integrative and disintegrative phases in societies lasting for roughly a century”
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