Ancient mckenna grace Greek historian Thucydides wrote that when a rising power threatens to displace a ruling one, war is inevitable. As an unstoppable China approaches an betty broderick immovable America and both Xi Jinping and Donald Trump promise to make their countries "great again," are we doomed to fall into this trap? In "Destined for War," Harvard's Graham Allison explains why Thucydides’s Trap is the best lens for understanding U.S.-China relations in the 21st century.
Graham Allison is the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard University. He was founding dean of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and served as assistant secretary of defense for policy and plans in the first singapore term of the Clinton administration.
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