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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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Destined for War, Graham T. Allison
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- Released
- 2018
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- Title
- Destined for War
- Subtitle
- Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Graham T. Allison
- Publisher
- Scribe
- Released
- 2018
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN10
- 1911617303
- ISBN13
- 9781911617303
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Historical Themes, History, Political Science & Politics, Politics, Military History, Military Fiction, Wars, Gifts for grandpa, China, International Relations
- Rating
- 4.15 out of 5
- Description
- 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