4/4: The Noble State: Governance Options in an Ignoble Era (X) Paperback – by Gregory R. Copley (Author)
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4/4: The Noble State: Governance Options in an Ignoble Era (X) Paperback –
by Gregory R. Copley (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Noble-State-Governance-Options-Ignoble/dp/1892998173/ref=sr_1_1?crid=LV80LP9FHKZI&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.pvXWpnq6EPCJu8yxYv54rQl1egBC1ybVBcHGeoLy6pj3WBxV7NKmVH2fuCDu-3cWJ6CeAlYZg8veoruaAhnB3b-rHyiJ4lGFtecSy3a-bj4Msc3dhuT5nPZip6kPggiuBNC1kwvPssKIqe9ZYDfWmyutJkGCtYMIStFjQaLt8zJJL1iuSdBdvdHOPOsnmQB8WjWAREnv2Djztd9tZl6RWPbI5l5ojJp9rl_JYxlB4oE.TIm-eCLeUcGiTuwK6YG5UCQd4DVmiCySTSMjtqugV3Y&dib_tag=se&keywords=gregory+copley&qid=1741385652&sprefix=GREGORY+COPLEY%2Caps%2C102&sr=8-1
Award-winning Australian strategic philosopher Gregory Copley, in his 37th book, argues that without nobility of leadership, a society cannot have the self-possession to accept nobility in itself. And without nobility of purpose and ideals, a nation-state cannot acquire the prestige and authority it needs to project its influence onto the global stage. But what constitutes nobility and the resultant leadership which brings prestige and influence? How does prestige create the deterrence and power projection to enable militaries to — as Sun-tzu said — win without fighting? What forms of government are best suited to the long-term embedding of nobility — and therefore stability — in governance? Copley looks at the power, now reviving, of modern constitutional monarchies, and how republics can learn from them in an age when all are combating autocracies and totalitarianism.
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| 0:00.0 | This is TBSI in the world. I'm John Batchel. I'm speaking with my colleague and friend Gregory Copley. His new book is The Noble State, Governance Options in NIG-Nobble era. |
| 0:13.0 | Republicanism peak. 250 years. That's about where the U.S. is, depending on when you start us. |
| 0:20.0 | 83, 76, 91. |
| 0:24.1 | However, the empire, that's available to the U.S. |
| 0:28.4 | We pretend we don't have one. |
| 0:30.3 | We do. |
| 0:31.4 | We do not have an emperor. |
| 0:32.6 | But that's too close to us. |
| 0:35.1 | Let's go to China. |
| 0:37.3 | Gregory, the sons of the revolutionaries, the princes, they are imbued with the nobility |
| 0:46.3 | we've been talking about because they are said to be related to families that suffered through the revolution. |
| 0:52.3 | Xi Jinping right now is one of them. |
| 0:55.2 | Is China on its way to becoming an empire right now? |
| 1:00.1 | I think it is very much on the way to reasserting its identity as that of an empire. |
| 1:06.9 | China is an empire. |
| 1:08.3 | It's a composite nation state which embodies captured lands. |
| 1:13.8 | And this is why the borders of China have changed constantly over the last two or a half, 3,000 years. |
| 1:22.9 | So, yes, it is an empire. The United States is an empire. It is basically conquered lands successfully, bringing in native lands and also by just, if you like, federalizing the individual modern states, the 50 modern states. |
| 1:41.5 | It's an empire. |
| 1:43.4 | Australia is an empire brought together different parts of the country into it. |
| 1:48.6 | So yes, China is on the way back to that, largely because it sees its greatness, |
| 1:54.8 | and even the Communist Party of China now sees China's greatness as a continuity, |
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