Geopolitics and Evolution

About the Book

What forces truly shape the rise and decline of civilizations? In Geopolitical Evolution, Professor Angelo Bertolo presents a serious and provocative work of historical and geopolitical analysis. Moving beyond short-term political commentary, he examines the deeper patterns that influence how societies grow, create, dominate, weaken, and pass their legacy to others. Drawing from classical and European history, Asian civilizations, biblical peoples, archaeology, and the thought of Vico, Machiavelli, Ibn Khaldun, Darwin, and Hegel, Bertolo explores civilization as an evolving human force shaped by fertility, moral energy, religious belief, ideology, social class, and political power. At the center of the book is a challenging argument: the destiny of nations cannot be understood through economics, diplomacy, or military strength alone. Population growth, cultural confidence, moral conviction, and the vitality of belief also shape the movement of history. For readers interested in geopolitics, civilizational decline, demography, political philosophy, and the future of the West, Geopolitical Evolution offers a broad framework for understanding the modern world. This is not a book of headlines. It is an invitation to read history as a recurring pattern of growth, power, maturity, decline, and transformation.

About the Author

Prof. Angelo Bertolo was born in 1939 in the north eastern region of Italy, Friuli, attended classical studies and got degrees from the Catholic University of Milan and the University of Toronto. His main interests have been in history from a very comprehensive point of view: classical and European history first of all, but also Asian civilizations, India in particular, the Semitic peoples of the Bible and ancient peoples as per archaeological studies. He likes to compare happenings and situations from the past and the present as did Machiavelli, and to find patterns in the evolution of societies in the wake of G. B. Vico and Charles Darwin. a_bertolo@libero.it