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Destined for war : can America and China escape Thucydides's trap? / Graham Allison.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Scribe, 2018.Edition: UK editionDescription: 364 sidor ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 978-1-911617-30-3
  • 1-911617-30-3
  • 978-1-925322-37-8
  • 1-925322-37-8
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.73051 23
Other classification:
  • Ob
  • Ocf-qa
  • Ocf-oea
Summary: When Athens went to war with Sparta some 2,500 years ago, the Greek historian Thucydides identified one simple cause: a rising power threatened to displace a ruling one, leading inexorably to conflict. As Graham Allison explains, in the past 500 years, great powers have found themselves in 'Thucydides's Trap' 16 times. In 12 of the 16 - from war between the French and the Hapsburgs in the 16th century to the two world wars of the 20th - the results have been catastrophic. Today, the same structural forces propel China and the US toward a cataclysm of unseen proportions, even as both sides insist that such a war could never occur.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

When Athens went to war with Sparta some 2,500 years ago, the Greek historian Thucydides identified one simple cause: a rising power threatened to displace a ruling one, leading inexorably to conflict. As Graham Allison explains, in the past 500 years, great powers have found themselves in 'Thucydides's Trap' 16 times. In 12 of the 16 - from war between the French and the Hapsburgs in the 16th century to the two world wars of the 20th - the results have been catastrophic. Today, the same structural forces propel China and the US toward a cataclysm of unseen proportions, even as both sides insist that such a war could never occur.

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