Destined for War Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap? - Allison, Graham ; Graham T. Allison

Destined for War Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap? by Allison, Graham ; Graham T. Allison

Format: Paperback

Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018

NATIONAL BESTSELLER | NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR. From an eminent international security scholar, an urgent examination of the conditions that could produce a catastrophic conflict between the United States and China--and how it might be prevented. China and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants. The reason is Thucydides's Trap: when a rising power threatens to displace a ruling one, violence is the likeliest result. Over the past five hundred years, these conditions have occurred sixteen times; war broke out in twelve.