Jane Burbank and Fredrick Cooper wrote “The Empire Effect” so that historians reading would be able to identify the core faults in the imperial system. That these core faults led to detrimental events in modern history. Monotheism was a fault in the imperial system, resulting in detrimental events due to the sole identity of the concept of power. The lack of equality in the imperial system was a failure, resulting in civil conflict. Burbank and Cooper wrote the “The Empire Effect” to identify the key differences between empires and current nation-states, and their similarities. Not only does it compare the two, but it also describes the instances that empires influence modern-day conflicts in nation-states. It describes A fault
