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Politics, History & Global Affairs

Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?

Graham Allison

First published
2017
Length
384 pages · about 7 hours
WarThucydides

Graham Allison asks whether a rising power and a ruling one, like China and America, can avoid war. He draws on the ancient Greek historian Thucydides and a long run of past rivalries to show how often it ends badly, and what could break the pattern.

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