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Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?

Hardcover • 2017 • English

Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?

By Graham Allison

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CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES ARE HEADING TOWARD A WAR NEITHER WANTS. The reason is Thucydides's Trap, a deadly pattern of structural stress that results when a rising power challenges a ruling one. This phenomenon is as old as history itself. About the Peloponnesian War that devastated ancient Greece, the historian Thucydides explained: "It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this instilled in Sparta that made war inevitable." Over the past 500 years, these conditions have occurred sixteen ...Show more

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9780544935273

Publisher

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN

Published year

2017

Language

English

Original title

Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?

Format

Hardcover

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