Skip to content

Can we model and forecast the dynamics of social resilience and its opposite, social breakdown?

— Peter Turchin

Another quote →

More quotes by Peter Turchin

It really is a very coherent understanding of these problems.

Human environment across time (2023)

How resilient are our societies to internal and external shocks?

SDT is a general theory that guides our understanding of political violence dynamics and social breakdown in all large-scale state-level societies.

In the late 1970s there was a definite phase transition.

Human environment across time (2023)

Quantitative historical analysis reveals that complex human societies are affected by recurrent—and predictable—waves of political instability...

All Peter Turchin quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Peter Turchin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.