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 ...

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2017, Xi said the Thucydides trap “can be avoided … as long as we maintain communication and treat each other with sincerity”.

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.

Reinterpretation of Thucydides' works The reception of Thucydides focuses on the question of who was reading Thucydides and what exactly they were reading. Reinterpretation is about the way that ...

The Thucydides Trap suggests that dark days lie ahead for them and for America. But how likely is conflict between the United States and Brazil, India, South Africa, or even a prickly Russia?

The futility of diplomacy is exemplified in the Melian dialogue chronicled by Thucydides. Athens demands that Melos become a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Naval War College Review, Vol. 66, No. 4 (Autumn 2013), pp. 30-46 (17 pages) A bove all let me emphasize that Thucydides is not a theorist of international relations but rather a historian and ...

Thucydides' Trap not an inevitability as long as both sides handle ties with vision and wisdom: China Daily editorial chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2023-10-09 21:10 ...

China never believes the so-called 'Thucydides Trap' or the narrative that a strong country is bound to seek hegemony, and the US should work with China to jointly tackle challenges faced by today ...