Societies in crisis and collapse

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Societies in crisis and collapse study how relatively stable political, economic and social systems enter into severe deterioration, lose organizational capacity and can fragment. Collapse does not always mean total disappearance, but rather a rapid reduction in complexity, legitimacy, coordination or well-being. From physics, these processes are analyzed as complex systems subject to tensions, feedbacks, energy limits and critical points. Concepts such as resilience, cascades, bifurcations, dependent networks and hysteresis allow us to understand why some societies absorb shocks while others fall abruptly. Physics does not replace history or politics, but it provides rigorous frameworks for studying stability, fragility, and recovery.

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