This week the Atlantic Magazine published “The Thucydides Trap: Are the U.S. and China Headed for War?” by Graham Allison, who is one of the more thoughtful geopolitical theorists of the last half century. His classes at Harvard come with a waiting list. His books are required reading for anybody interested in foreign policy and he has shown an uncanny knack for getting much of what he says right. His basic thought is that history results in an inevitable clash of titans, with war being the only inevitable outcome. Allison travels back to the 16th century until the present and …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
