Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance - and Why They Fall is a 2007 book by Yale Law School professor Amy Chua.

The book discusses examples of "hyperpowers" throughout human history.

It explains their strength as a result of their ethnic diversity, but also explains how this diversity eventually led to their downfall.

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