Most of our knowledge of the Peloponnesian War comes from the text of Thucydides' History, yet IR scholars are strangely credulous when evaluating Thucydides' pronouncements. I explore what Thucydides ...

For a man so long dead, Thucydides is rarely out of the news. A recent Politico article discusses the influence of Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War on the Trump White House, with reference to ...

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- In 416 BCE a mighty army from Athens, the superpower of the day, showed up on the small and neutral island of Melos in the Aegean Sea. The Athenians told the Melians to submit ...

Thucydides, who chronicled the Peloponnesian War that shook the classical world, believed that behind the specific events that lead to war lie deeper, structural stresses. It is fear, honor and ...

Thucydides is on a roll these days. The ancient Greek historian of the Peloponnesian War, who lived almost 2,500 years ago, makes the title of Graham Allison’s prominent new volume, Destined for War: ...

This year is the 50th anniversary of the “Summer of Love,” those months in 1967 when a hundred thousand hippies convened in Haight-Ashbury. Flower children held a Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park, and ...

The American people have been roughed up over the last decade. A sense of vulnerability and danger tinges their view of public affairs. The 2008 crash made them wary of markets. The last two years ...

Retreat of the Athenians from Syracuse during a battle of the Peloponnesian War, from Cassell's 'Universal History,' published in 1888. Ken Welsh/Design Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) ...

President Trump at the White House in Washington on April 5. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Graham Allison's April 2 Outlook essay, "How Trump and China's Xi could stumble into war," described ...

For a U.S. president who supposedly lacks a coherent ideology, Donald Trump has surrounded himself with political ideologues of the first order. Commentators, in turn, have shown a continued ...

This is a column by John A. Tures, a professor of political science at LaGrange College. He is a regular contributor to the Savannah Morning News. Throughout the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I’ve ...