Michel Vial (2020). The fall of the Western Empire. National Synthesis Books. Ideas collection. Far from being dogmatic, this essay responds above all to a logic. That of the witness of an era which sees the collapse of a « western empire » that could have been naively imagined, after the establishment of the New World Order in the early 1990s, as having to be final. To have wanted, in the name of ultra-liberalism, to destroy nations and their specificities for the benefit of a vast market with planetary dimensions has been the big mistake of recent decades. We see today that this disastrous globalist project has reached its limits. In addition, the return to the international scene of conquering Islam, accentuated by the great migratory mixtures, darkens even more the future of our European peoples.