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Verfasst von:Allison, Graham T. [VerfasserIn]   i
Titel:Destined for war
Titelzusatz:can America and China escape Thucydides's trap?
Verf.angabe:Graham Allison
Verlagsort:Boston ; New York
Verlag:Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Jahr:2017
Umfang:xx, 364 Seiten
Illustrationen:Illustrationen
ISBN:978-0-544-93527-3
 978-1-911617-30-3
Abstract:"CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES ARE HEADING TOWARD A WAR NEITHER WANTS. The reason is Thucydides's Trap, a deadly pattern of structural stress that results when a rising power challenges a ruling one. This phenomenon is as old as history itself. About the Peloponnesian War that devastated ancient Greece, the historian Thucydides explained: "It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this instilled in Sparta that made war inevitable." Over the past 500 years, these conditions have occurred sixteen times. War broke out in twelve of them. Today, as an unstoppable China approaches an immovable America and both Xi Jinping and Donald Trump promise to make their countries "great again," the seventeenth case looks grim. Unless China is willing to scale back its ambitions or Washington can accept becoming number two in the Pacific, a trade conflict, cyberattack, or accident at sea could soon escalate into all-out war. In Destined for War, the eminent Harvard scholar Graham Allison explains why Thucydides's Trap is the best lens for understanding U.S.-China relations in the twenty-first century. Through uncanny historical parallels and war scenarios, he shows how close we are to the unthinkable. Yet, stressing that war is not inevitable, Allison also reveals how clashing powers have kept the peace in the past -- and what painful steps the United States and China must take to avoid disaster today"--
Schlagwörter:(g)USA   i / (g)China   i / (s)Internationale Politik   i / (s)Kriegsgefahr   i / (s)Rüstungswettlauf   i / (s)Geschichtsschreibung   i / (s)Vorbild   i
 (g)USA   i / (g)China   i / (s)Außenpolitik   i
Sprache:eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Allison, Graham T., 1940-: Destined for war. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017
RVK-Notation:MK 2100   i
 ML 7800   i
 ML 6300   i
 ML 5700   i
Sach-SW:History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)
 Cloth or Hardcover
 Diplomatic relations
 HISTORY
 HISTORY
 History & Theory
 International Relations
 Military
 POLITICAL SCIENCE
 POLITICAL SCIENCE
 Politics
 War
 War
 Thucydides
 China
 China
 United States
 United States
 Vereinigte Staaten
 United States
K10plus-PPN:886359821
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