Allison, Graham <br/><br/>
Destined for war :   can America and China escape Thucydides's trap?  
Graham Allison 
 - London :  Scribe,   2018.  
 - xx, 364 p. ;   20 cm.  
<br/><br/> 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.  
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781911617303          9781925322378  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Balance of power<br/>International relations<br/>War--Causes<br/>War--Forecasting<br/>United States--Foreign relations --China
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>327.73051 AL DE