Destined for war - can America and China escape Thucydides's trap?
Böcker. 2018. 364 sidor.
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.
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9781911617303
- Titel
- Destined for war - can America and China escape Thucydides's trap?
- Författare
- Allison, Graham T.
- Utgivningsår
- 2018
- Omfång
- 364 sidor
- Bandtyp
- UK edition
- Språk
- English