Destined for War : can America and China escape Thucydides's Trap? R.R. Hawkins Award (2017) visiting hill-tribes in Thailand

visiting hill-tribes in Thailand

From the creators of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes an imaginative mystery of appearances and disappearances that is also a poignant look at the ways in which we all struggle to find ourselves

They contain a wealth of references across time and cultures

taught me a ton about how extraordinary the man really was and what made him that way

~from the back cover

Destined for War : can America and China escape Thucydides's Trap? R.R. Hawkins Award (2017) visiting hill-tribes in ThailandChina and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants. The reason, argues Harvard scholar Graham Allison in this razor sharp analysis, is Thucydidess Trap. This phenomenon, as old as history itself, is named for the Greek historians assessment of why the Peloponnesian War broke out: a rising power threatened to displace a ruling one. Over the past 500 years, such a struggle has occurred between major powers just sixteen times. In twelve