While Thucydides argued that the rise of Athens caused fear in Sparta and made war inevitable, Allison said Thucydides does not really mean inevitable. It was an exaggeration.

The “Thucydides Trap” derives its name from the fifth century BC Athenian historian known for his “History of the Peloponnesian War,” which, according to Allison’s reading, recounted the ...

During his visit to the United States in 2015, Chinese President Xi Jinping said "there is no such thing as the so-called 'Thucydides trap' in the world. But should major countries time and again ...

Academic who coined the term Thucydides Trap – where a rising power threatens to eclipse a rival – says China and US could fall into it while dancing around each other on the world stage. This ...

Humanity may have lucked out. China speed, dodgy data and the Houthis may just have derailed the 21st Century Thucydides trap. <a href =https ...

It was Graham Allison at the Harvard Kennedy School that reminded us of the immediate danger of a Thucydides Trap – the rise of Athens and the fear this inspired in Sparta that made war inevitable.

The Thucydides trap In his 2017 book “Destined for War”, Harvard political analyst Graham Allison raised the spectre of historical determinism with the idea of the “Thucydides trap”.

Call this the Thucydides Fallacy, where the demand side is ignored in the determination of world order. In the marketplace for world order, small states like those in Southeast Asia are indeed ...

As a heuristic device, the “Thucydides trap” doesn’t offer any particular help on either count. Alek Chance is the coordinator of the China-US Cooperation Program at Institute for China ...

Longtime readers of Spoiler Alerts are by now accustomed to occasional columns referencing or analyzing Thucydides’s classic history of the Peloponnesian War and its relevance to the modern ...

It is debatable whether Plutarch’s political wisdom is more applicable to today’s times than Thucydides’ (“From Cicero to Trump, They’re All in Plutarch’s ‘Lives’” by Rebecca ...