Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Retreat of the Athenians from Syracuse during a battle of the Peloponnesian War, from Cassell's 'Universal History,' published in ...

Geopolitical tension looms over American politics, as was evident in last month’s debate when Kamala Harris claimed her rival “sold us out” to China. Though election rhetoric has heightened these ...

Instead, it's a call to action. From helping mediate in Ukraine to investing in the US, China may yet defy historical ...

Thucydides is often read these days as a pioneering political theorist, who identified the normative principles ...

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 Peloponnesian War (431–404 BCE) ostensibly arose because of the fear that a rising Athens would threaten Sparta’s power in the Mediterranean. The idea of Thucydides’ Trap warns that all rising ...

“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 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 ...

⚔ Are China and America destined for war? Trade vs. the Thucydides Trap. In the 2017 book Destined For War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?, Harvard University political scientist ...

The Thucydides trap cannot be overlooked in considering Japan’s national security strategy in conjunction with the Quad as well as the Japan-U.S. alliance. Early next year, Australia, India, Japan, ...

(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 ...