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Secrets Of Statecraft: What The Greeks And Romans Can Teach Us According to Victor Davis Hanson

The Secrets of Statecraft

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The Thucydidean Trap

In two thousand and 18 graham allison wrote a book adestined for war tan china and america, thucydides trap. Several books obviously been written since that with this phrase in the title or subtitle. I e that it was dynamic and growing, and they were static, and so this was the last chance for preemption. So i never bought into that, because there are all sorts of cases in history where a rising power does not cause a peremptory attack from an established power as if it's the last time you can change it. That happens whenare so many other fundamental differences.

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