Destined for war : can America and China escape Thucydides's trap?
By: Allison, Graham
Publisher: London : Scribe, 2018.Description: xx, 364 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9781911617303 ; 9781925322378 Subject(s): Balance of power | International relations | War -- Causes | War -- Forecasting | United States -- Foreign relations -- ChinaDDC classification: 327.73051 AL DE Online resources: Location Map
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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| REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 327.73051 AL DE (Browse shelf) | Available | Oct2019 | T0063023 |
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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.