{"podcast":{"title":"Decoding Geopolitics Podcast with Dominik Presl","slug":"decoding-geopolitics-podcast-with-dominik-presl-6862131","podcast_index_feed_id":6862131,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/ecf42094/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.patreon.com/c/DecodingGeopolitics","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/39654221/39654221-1760441369220-3e3dd289f3dd1.jpg","author":"Decoding Geopolitics","episode_count":158,"summary":"Decoding Geopolitics is a podcast that tries to make sense of today's dangerous world by talking with real experts on international relations, strategy and security.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-20T06:24:47.500383+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/decoding-geopolitics-podcast-with-dominik-presl-6862131"},"episode":{"title":"Imperial Collapse Expert: The Real Reason Empires Fall - And Why America Is Next","slug":"imperial-collapse-expert-the-real-reason-empires-fall-and-why-america-is-next","published_at":"2026-09-19T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/decoding-geopolitics-podcast-with-dominik-presl-6862131/imperial-collapse-expert-the-real-reason-empires-fall-and-why-america-is-next","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/decoding-geopolitics-podcast-with-dominik-presl-6862131","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dominik-presl/episodes/Imperial-Collapse-Expert-The-Real-Reason-Empires-Fall---And-Why-America-Is-Next-e3p1e83","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO6560547273.mp3","summary":"➡️ Watch the full ad-free interview on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://decodinggeopolitics.substack.com/ This is a conversation with Peter Heather - a professor of history at the King’s College London and the world’s leading authority on the fall of the Roman Empire. Now this might sound a bit random since this is a podcast about contemporary geopolitics but Peter has recently written a book that takes his expertise much further. He makes an argument that all great empires of history go through the exact same cycle of rise and fall - including the present day American empire. And that just like Rome it’s fall is caused by the same thing that made it a superpower in the first place - and that just like for Rome, it’s now on a swift and inevitable fall down. It’s a fascinating argument and one of my favorite discussions that provides a great framework for how to think about today - and what it is that we are - unfortunately - heading towards.","meta_description":"➡️ Watch the full ad-free interview on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://decoding…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2361,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/decoding-geopolitics-podcast-with-dominik-presl-6862131/episodes/imperial-collapse-expert-the-real-reason-empires-fall-and-why-america-is-next/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/decoding-geopolitics-podcast-with-dominik-presl-6862131/imperial-collapse-expert-the-real-reason-empires-fall-and-why-america-is-next.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}