Destined for War
Can America and China escape Thucydides' Trap?
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- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
14 October 2019
Summary
China and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants. The reason is Thucydides’ Trap, a deadly pattern of structural stress that results when a rising power challenges a ruling one. This phenomenon is as old as history itself. 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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781925849981 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1925849988 |
| Author: | Graham Allison, Andrew Hastie |
| Publisher: | Scribe Publications |
| Imprint: | Scribe Publications |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 14 October 2019 |
| Weight: | 322g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 25mm |
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Graham Allison
Graham Allison is director of Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the bestselling author of Lee Kuan Yew, Nuclear Terrorism, and Essence of Decision. Founding dean of the Kennedy School of Government, he advised the secretaries of defense under Reagan, Clinton, and Obama.
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