The political scientist Graham Allison famously warned that the two countries could fall into what he called “the Thucydides trap,” based on the idea that war is likely when a rising state threatens ...

Geopolitical tension looms over American politics, as was evident in last month’s debate when Kamala Harris claimed her rival “sold us out” to China. Though election rhetoric has heightened these ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Retreat of the Athenians from Syracuse during a battle of the Peloponnesian War, from Cassell's 'Universal History,' published in ...

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The power struggle between the United States and China in the Asia-Pacific region is commonly explained in International Relations through Harvard professor Graham Allison’s Thucydides Trap concept.

The Peloponnesian War (431–404 BCE) ostensibly arose because of the fear that a rising Athens would threaten Sparta’s power in the Mediterranean. The idea of Thucydides’ Trap warns that all rising ...

⚔ Are China and America destined for war? Trade vs. the Thucydides Trap. In the 2017 book Destined For War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?, Harvard University political scientist ...

“It was the rise of Athens, and the fear that this instilled in Sparta, that made war inevitable.” — Thucydides said circa 500 BC. Thucydides, an ancient Athenian, is known as one of the most ...

Early next year, Australia, India, Japan, and the United States will hold a foreign ministers’ meeting of the quadrilateral security dialogue (Quad) in New Delhi, India. The Quad member states have ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The so-called Thucydides Trap has become a staple of foreign policy commentary over the past decade or so, regularly invoked to frame the escalating rivalry between the United ...