The defining question about global order in the decades ahead will be: can China and the US escape Thucydides’s trap? The historian’s metaphor reminds us of the dangers two parties face when a ...

Professor Graham Allison of the Kennedy School at Harvard commonly warns the United States and China not to fall into the "Thucydides Trap.” This trap, he opines, yawns wide because of "the ...

Professor Graham Allison of the Kennedy School at Harvard commonly warns the United States and China not to fall into the "Thucydides Trap.” This trap, he opines, yawns wide because of "the ...

On March 27, the country's top leader and a group of US businesspeople and academics agreed that the existing and rising powers can avoid the "Thucydides trap". The meeting was held just days ...

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 ...

Washington and Beijing must resist the temptation to frame the relationship in purely zero-sum termsBy Euripides L EvriviadesThucydides, the Athenian historian of the 5th century BCE, observed in the ...

There has been much discussion in recent years of China and America falling into the “Thucydides Trap” of established and rising powers inevitably clashing to the point of military conflict.

The so-called Thucydides Trap has become a staple of foreign policy commentary over the past decade or so, regularly invoked to frame the escalating rivalry between the United States and China.

Retreat of the Athenians from Syracuse during a battle of the Peloponnesian War, from Cassell's 'Universal History,' published in 1888. Ken Welsh/Design Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) ...

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 ...

Allison is known for popularising the phrase “Thucydides trap” – the idea that a rising power and an established hegemon are destined for war. The term is named after the ancient Greek ...

Several years ago, the Harvard political scientist Graham Allison coined the term “Thucydides’ trap.” It was based on the ancient historian’s observation that the real cause of the ...