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 ...

In 431 BCE the Athenian statesman Pericles delivered one of the most influential speeches of all time, his Epitaphios or ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Allison, who has been an influential foreign-policy voice for decades, coined the term “Thucydides’s Trap” to describe the historical tendency for established superpowers and upstart rivals ...

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 ...

“It was the rise of Athens, and the fear that this instilled in Sparta, that made war inevitable.” — Thucydides said circa 500 BC. Thucydides, an ancient Athenian, is known as one of the most ...