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4 days ago · Again turning to Thucydides (who was no stranger to this technique), a parallel example from Western IR scholarship would be to read a “Thucydides trap” (Allison, 2017)—a situation in which a rising power challenges a declining hegemon—into Thucydides himself. In fact, Thucydides described no such thing: “What made war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.”
3 days ago · The Thucydides' Trap is a term first used by US political scientist Graham T. Allison to describe an apparent tendency toward war when an emerging power threatens to displace an existing great power.
4 days ago · Fast forward to today’s world where, in a 2012 article in the Financial Times entitled “Thucydides's trap has been sprung in the Pacific,” 7 Harvard political scientist Graham T. Allison used the term ‘Thucydides Trap’ to imply the high likelihood of conflict when an emerging power threatens to take the place of an established power. Following this line of thought there is little that can be done as historical determinism takes over and the emerging rivalry between such Great ...
17 hours ago · 01:11. Graham Allison, the originator of the term Thucydides Trap, which describes a potential conflict pattern between a rising power and an existing power, has recently adopted a more optimistic view on China-U.S. relations as of late June 2024. He said that both countries are actively steering away from the Thucydides Trap, emphasizing that ...
2 days ago · 9:01 What the West wants from China, the Thucydides Trap, 15:11 The trajectory of China’s economic development and why it’s hard for the West to reconcile with] 25:11 “Overcapacity” and the politics of renewable energy. 31:00 Russo-Chinese relations and the war in Ukraine
2 days ago · Yoder, B 2019, 'Uncertainty, Shifting Power and Credible Signals in US-China Relations: Why the "Thucydides Trap" Is Real, but Limited', Journal of Chinese Political Science, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 87-104.
5 days ago · In the past two years, two issues have drawn our attention, the middle-income trap and the Thucydides trap. The US believes that if China fell into the middle-income trap, it would never be able to challenge the United States, in which case, there will be no Thucydides trap.
