Destined for war : can America and China escape Thucydides's trap?
Allison, Graham T.2018
Book
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 Thucydides's trap? / Graham Allison.
Author:
Allison, Graham T., author
Edition:
UK edition.
Imprint:
©2017.London : Scribe, 2018.
Collation:
xx, 364 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781911617303 (UK edition)9781925322378 (Australian edition)
Dewey class:
327.73051
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2068126