{"id":42397,"date":"2016-05-09T12:02:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T11:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=42397"},"modified":"2019-07-23T08:24:06","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T07:24:06","slug":"fall-of-empire-end-to-us-wars-johan-galtung-predictions-taking-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/05\/fall-of-empire-end-to-us-wars-johan-galtung-predictions-taking-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall of Empire, End to US Wars: Johan Galtung Predictions Taking Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From Feb 21, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Some analysts say the US &#8211; bogged down in wars and pressed by emerging powers &#8211; will have to rethink its role in world affairs. Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung, a peace and conflict expert, goes further by predicting the fall of the \u201cUS Empire\u201d by 2020. Military defeats in wars of choice will generate political loss of influence and irrelevance externally, what may trigger a soul-searching internally. The Vietnam War was but a prelude. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya follow the script. Israel may become a burden to the USA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>He suggests solutions based on 50 years of research in the areas of conflict transformation, mediation, peace studies, and related disciplines.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OkBtOPvfB_k<br \/>\n<em>Johan Galtung, a professor of peace studies, dr hc mult, is founder of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/a><em> and rector of the <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tpu\/\" >TRANSCEND Peace University-TPU<\/a><em>. He <\/em><em>has published 164 books on peace and related issues<\/em>, <em>of which 41 have been translated into 35 languages, for a total of 135 book translations<\/em><em>, including \u2018<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tup\/index.php?book=1\" >50 Years-100 Peace and Conflict Perspectives<\/a>,\u2019<em> published by the <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tup\/\" >TRANSCEND University Press-TUP<\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung, a peace and conflict expert, predicts the fall of the \u201cUS Empire\u201d by 2020. Military defeats in wars of choice will generate political loss of influence and irrelevance externally, what may trigger a soul-searching internally. The Vietnam War was but a prelude. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya follow the script. Israel may become a burden to the USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}