Destined for War : can America and China escape Thucydides's Trap? R.R. Hawkins Award (2017) ~from the back cover

~from the back cover

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Destined for War : can America and China escape Thucydides's Trap? R.R. Hawkins Award (2017) ~from the back coverChina and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants. The reason, argues Harvard scholar Graham Allison in this razor sharp analysis, is Thucydidess Trap. This phenomenon, as old as history itself, is named for the Greek historians assessment of why the Peloponnesian War broke out: a rising power threatened to displace a ruling one. Over the past 500 years, such a struggle has occurred between major powers just sixteen times. In twelve