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Politics · 22 min

Destined For War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?―A Critical Examination of Historical Patterns Leading to Wa

By Graham Allison

Exploring Thucydides's Trap, a historical pattern where rising powers clash with established ones, we ask if America and China are destined for conflict or if conscious statecraft can defy this ancient gravitational pull.

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“Exploring Thucydides's Trap, a historical pattern where rising powers clash with established ones, we ask if America and China are destined for conflict or if conscious statecraft can defy this ancient gravitational pull.”

— Graham Allison, Destined For War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?―A Critical Examination of Historical Patterns Leading to Wa

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thucydides's trap, us-china relations, geopolitics

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Best suited to listeners who want a clearer working understanding of thucydides's trap, us-china relations, geopolitics and better judgment in how they apply it.

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Graham Allison brings a credible and useful lens to thucydides's trap, us-china relations, geopolitics, with enough subject command to make the book worth hearing.

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Graham Allison

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