Destined for war : can America and China escape Thucydide's trap?
Allison, Graham T.2017
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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.
Main title:
Destined for war : can America and China escape Thucydide's trap? / Graham Allison.
Author:
Allison, Graham T., author
Imprint:
London : Scribe, 2017.
Collation:
xx, 364 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781911344513 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
327.73051327.51073327.5107327.73
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
4187344