01733cam a2200301 i 4500 333378989 TxGeo 20171117120000.0 170502s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017005351 9780544935273 hbk. 0544935276 hbk. (OCoLC)985966699 TxGeo rda Allison, Graham T. Destined for war : can America and China escape Thucydides's trap / Graham Allison. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. xx, 364 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Allison outlines his belief that "China and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants. The reason is Thucydides's 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 times ... Today, as an unstoppable China approaches an immovable America and both Xi Jinping and Donald Trump promise to make their countries 'great again,' the seventeenth case looks grim"-- Provided by publisher. 20171129. Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War. War Causes. QS5