The so-called Thucydides Trap has become a staple of foreign policy commentary over the past decade or so, regularly invoked ...

In this engrossing tour de force, Edelstein ventures across the ancient and modern eras to trace the evolution of revolution as a political idea.

How accurate is the depiction of the history of other large armed conflicts, such as the two world wars, as a challenge mounted by a rising power to displace an incumbent hegemon?Thucydides’s Trap?: ...

Thucydides wasn’t articulating a deterministic law of geopolitics. He was writing a tragedy. History repeats as tragedy? Advertisement Thucydides fought in the Peloponnesian War on the Athenian ...

Where modern analysts often search for predictive patterns and system-level explanations, Thucydides drew attention to the role of choice, perception and emotion. His history is filled with the ...