New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2019. Emmanuel Todd explains the different historical trajectories of the advanced nations and the growing divergence between them, a divergence that can be observed in the rise of the Anglosphere in the modern period, the paradox of a Homo Americanus that is at once innovative and archaic, the startling electoral success of Donald Trump, the lack of realism in the will to power shown by Germany and China, the emergence of stable authoritarian democracy in Russia, the new introversion of Japan and the recent turbulent developments in Europe, including Brexit.