What did Thucydides really say on this? And what’s Athens and Sparta got to do with the current state of US-China relations?

Chinese President Xi Jinping invoked the Thucydides Trap in a pointed warning to Donald Trump, using ancient Greek history to frame US-China rivalry, rising power tensions and the Taiwan flashpoint, ...

Athens and Sparta represented for classical thinkers distinct and opposing regimes. Democratic Athens took pride in its freedom, openness, and accomplishments in the arts and philosophy. Oligarchic ...

Sparta’s class of elite warriors were freed from ordinary work, their needs met by slaves. The system had a built-in weakness ...

The most familiar translation of his words, from 1875, is that It was the rise of Athens, and the fear this aroused in Sparta ...

History doesn’t repeat itself, but there are relevant analogies in any discussion of historical events, and these can be ...

It’s the theory that, when a rising power threatens to displace an established power, the result is often war. It is named ...

That weapon alone is forged out of several raw materials, such as iron and bauxite, which Israel would have to import, should ...

Now that the war in Gaza appears to have come to an end and Hamas has returned the remaining 20 living hostages to their families, we can fully expect Israel’s enemies and other critics across the ...

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