These days people talk about “the Thucydides Trap” to describe the potential conflict between China and the US, but they forget other lessons from the Peloponnesian war, such as how Athens ...

Instead, it's a call to action. From helping mediate in Ukraine to investing in the US, China may yet defy historical ...

Prof Graham Allison from Harvard University in discussion with Dr Huiyao Wang of the Centre for China and Globalisation based in Beijing.

Sixteen years into the Peloponnesian War, the devastating conflict between the Athenian and Spartan empires during the fifth ...

(Hobbes) A more literal version of what Thucydides says would be: “...considering that men who had courage, and knew what was necessary, and were conscious of honour when in action, achieved these ...

The idea of Thucydides’ Trap warns that all rising powers threaten established powers. As China increases its power relative to the United States, the theory argues, the two nations are inevitably set ...

Thucydides anticipated the Trump-Zelenskyy conversation in his “History of the Peloponnesian War,” in which the islanders of ...

The Funeral Oration has become one of the most famous and influential passages in Thucydides’ work; it offers a stirring tribute to the culture of Athens, to democracy and freedom, and it celebrates ...

And victims, of course, should not be held up as aggressors. Who’s surprised? It’s an age-old debate. The political historian Thucydides anticipated the Trump-Zelenskyy conversation in detail in his ...

The political historian Thucydides anticipated the Trump-Zelenskyy conversation in detail in his "History of the Peloponnesian War." The Melians had shown no aggression, but the Athenians needed to ...