Thucydides is on a roll these days. The ancient Greek historian of the Peloponnesian War, who lived almost 2,500 years ago, makes the title of Graham Allison’s prominent new volume, Destined for War: ...
China’s leader raised the ancient Greek historian Thucydides when he met the US president in Beijing A messy war in the Middle East. Tensions in Taiwan. When the leaders of the world’s two superpowers ...
A plaster cast bust of the Athenian historian and general Thucydides made in the early 1900s based on a copy of an early 4th Century BCE Greek original. (Credit: Shakko/Wikimedia Commons) During his ...
The Thucydides Trap assumes nations have no control over their actions, and has been refuted by world history. Yet fear of it in popular imagination can have real geopolitical impact. Back in 2018, I ...
Given recent interest in the work of the ancient Athenian soldier-turned-historian Thucydides in the foreign policy community—primarily due to Harvard academic Graham Allison’s popularization of the ...
China’s leader reached for Greek history to warn the United States of what can happen when a rising power meets an incumbent one. By Leo Sands See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra ...
How do you turn a metaphor into an axiom? Try: “Strategist appropriation.” When writing on politics and war, this means lardering your first few graphs with maxims from so-called “masters of war,” ...
The Peloponnesian War, his magisterial opus on Athens’ doomed decades-long conflict with Sparta in the fifth century BC, includes the famous line, “The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what ...
President Trump with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Fla., on April 6. (Jim Watson/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images) The April 2 Outlook essay "How Trump ...
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