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) ...

“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 ...

The power struggle between the United States and China in the Asia-Pacific region is commonly explained in International Relations through Harvard professor Graham Allison’s Thucydides Trap concept.

The holiday season is a time for coming together. It’s a time to think of those close to us, but it’s also a time to reflect on the larger sphere of which we are but a part: our community, our country ...

George Yeo, the former foreign minister of Singapore, spoke last month about why China's unique character suggests they do not have any desire to be a colonial power at the Cambridge Union. "America ...

Trade vs. the Thucydides Trap. In the 2017 book Destined For War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?, Harvard University political scientist Graham Allison warned about the significant ...

The ‘Thucydides trap’ exaggerates the risk of war breaking out between the rising power and the ruling power in the contemporary age. The greater challenge facing China and the United States is to ...

Watching the extraordinary performance of athletes competing in the Paris Olympics is a humbling experience. It is amazing to see what fellow human beings are capable of. Each time an... July 27 ...

In the aftermath of the 2016 elections, an intense and widening divide resurfaced among Americans. While initial fissures in U.S. society revealed themselves over twenty years ago, the split increased ...

(THE CONVERSATION) 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 ...