- #pierrevial #empireoccidental #synthesenationale #identite #occident Michel Vial (2020). The fall of the Western Empire. Les Bouquins de Synthèse nationale, collection of ideas. 130 p. Far from being dogmatic, this essay responds above all to logic. That of the witness of an era which saw the collapse of a « Western empire » that one could naively imagine, after the establishment of the New World Order, in the early 1990s, as having to be final. Wanting, 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 great mistake of recent decades. We see today that this disastrous globalist project has reached its limits.