“These seemingly disparate social indicators are actually related to each other dynamically,” he wrote at the time.

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Turchin’s prediction was based on a framework known as Structural-Demographic Theory (SDT), which models how historical forces—economic inequality, elite competition and state capacity—interact to drive cycles of political instability. These cycles have recurred across empires and republics, from ancient Rome to the Ottoman Empire.

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