Destined for war : can America and China escape Thucydides's trap? /
Allison, Graham T.
Destined for war : can America and China escape Thucydides's trap? / Graham Allison. - xx, 364 páginas : ilustraciones, mapas, gráficas ; 21 cm.
Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.
"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. War broke out in twelve of them. 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. Unless China is willing to scale back its ambitions or Washington can accept becoming number two in the Pacific, a trade conflict, cyberattack, or accident at sea could soon escalate into all-out war". --
9781328915382 (rústica) 9780544935273 (hardback)
Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War
Guerra--Causas
War--Causes
Estados Unidos--Relaciones exteriores--China
China--Relaciones exteriores--Estados Unidos
United States--Foreign relations--China
China--Foreign relations--United States
JZ 6385 / A55 2017
Destined for war : can America and China escape Thucydides's trap? / Graham Allison. - xx, 364 páginas : ilustraciones, mapas, gráficas ; 21 cm.
Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.
"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. War broke out in twelve of them. 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. Unless China is willing to scale back its ambitions or Washington can accept becoming number two in the Pacific, a trade conflict, cyberattack, or accident at sea could soon escalate into all-out war". --
9781328915382 (rústica) 9780544935273 (hardback)
Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War
Guerra--Causas
War--Causes
Estados Unidos--Relaciones exteriores--China
China--Relaciones exteriores--Estados Unidos
United States--Foreign relations--China
China--Foreign relations--United States
JZ 6385 / A55 2017