Destined for war : can America and China escape Thucydides's trap?

Graham T. Allison Graham Allison
Bok · Engelsk · 2018 Graham T. Allison

Utgitt	Melbourne : Scribe , 2018
Omfang	xx, 364 s.
Opplysninger	Thucydides's Trap is a deadly pattern of structural stress that results when a rising power challenges a ruling one. About the Peloponnesian War that devastated ancient Greece, the historian Thucydides explained: "It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this instilled in Sparta that made war inevitable." Over the past 500 years, these conditions have occurred sixteen times. War broke out in twelve of them. Today, as an unstoppable China approaches an immovable America and both Xi Jinping and Donald Trump promise to make their countries "great again," the seventeenth case looks grim. Unless China is willing to scale back its ambitions or Washington can accept becoming number two in the Pacific, a trade conflict, cyberattack, or accident at sea could soon escalate into all-out war.
Emner	Thukydid , c460-400 f.Kr. : History of the Peloponnesian War Forente stater - utenrikspolitikk - Kina
Dewey	327.73051
ISBN	978-1-911617-30-3 : Nkr 129.00