Thucydides’s trap
Coined by Harvard professor Graham Allison to capture the idea that the rivalry between an established power and a rising one often ends in war
As tensions between the US and China rose in 2018, so did discussion of Thucydides’s trap. The ancient Greek historian Thucydides had observed that the Peloponnesian war (431BC-404BC) was caused by “the growth of Athenian power and the fear that this caused in Sparta”.
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