Destined For War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's

Destined For War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR | SHORT-LISTED FOR THE 2018 LIONEL GELBER PRIZE |Â NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: FINANCIAL TIMES * THE TIMES (LONDON) * AMAZON
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â€œAllison is one of the keenest observers of international affairs around.â€â€” JOE BIDEN, former vice president of the United States
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China and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants. The reason is Thucydidesâ€™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. Today, as an unstoppable China approaches an immovable America, and both Xi Jinping and Donald Trump promise to make their countries â€œgreat again,â€ the seventeenth case looks grim. A trade conflict, cyberattack, Korean crisis, or accident at sea could easily spark a major war.
Â Â Â Â Â In Destined for War,Â eminent Harvard scholar Graham Allison masterfully blends history and current events to explain the timeless machinery of Thucydidesâ€™s Trapâ€”and to explore the painful steps that might prevent disaster today.
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â€œ[A] must-read book in both Washington and Beijing.â€â€” NIALL FERGUSON, BOSTON GLOBE
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â€œ[Allison is] a first-class academic with the instincts of a first-rate politician.â€â€” BLOOMBERG NEWS
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â€œ[Full of] wide-ranging, erudite case studies that span human history . . . [A] fine book.â€â€” NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Country USA
Manufacturer Mariner Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-05-30
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Mariner Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2017-05-30
Format	Kindle eBook

Destined For War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?

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