Thucydides has been hosting the longest-running seminar in international politics, and the price of admission for those who want to enroll in it is simple: you have to read him. Since February, I’ve ...

China is rising, and tensions with the United States have increased in recent years. Yet the core theory informing much of US policy toward China today—the idea of a Thucydides Trap popularized in ...

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The holiday season is a time for coming together. It’s a time to think of those close to us, but it’s also a time to reflect on the larger sphere of which we are but a part: our community, our country ...

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Athenian pressmen stood open-mouthed in a little eager ring last week while a powerful, flashing-eyed old man performed the miracle of interesting them in The History of the Peloponnesian War (431 to ...

The Peloponnesian War (431–404 BCE) ostensibly arose because of the fear that a rising Athens would threaten Sparta’s power in the Mediterranean. The idea of Thucydides’ Trap warns that all rising ...