Become engaged in a compelling and comprehensive historic perspective on today’s potential trends about the potential of warfare vs. peaceful alternatives between great powers: the focus on the U.S. and China.
Author, Alan Greely Misenheimer showcases the concept of Thucydides and trends to warfare through Harvard’s science professor, Graham Allison’s representation of Thucydides in this case study for a possibility of war outcome. However, Greely Misenheimer contends that these past conceptual theories with Greek civilization are relational in today’s world for comparisons and similarities between decision making, processes of government, building allies and alliances, and economic power that appear to be present with current U.S.-China negotiations. The arguments in this thought-provoking text point to leaders to determine the outcomes for diplomacy rather than war.
A Glance through the Key Features:
- From the Aegean to the South (and East) China Sea
- Reactions to the Thucydides Trap
- Power Transition Theory before the Thucydides Trap
- What Does Thucydides Actually Say about the Origins of the War?
- In Search of Causality and Necessity: Aitiai and Prophasis
- Fear, Honor, and Interest, and Thucydides’ other “Traps”
- Conclusions: Destined for Difficult Diplomacy, Not for War
- Geography, History, Destiny
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Introduction. 1
From the Aegean to the South (and East) China Sea 4
Reactions to the Thucydides Trap 7
Power Transition Theory before the Thucydides Trap 9
What Does Thucydides Actually Say about the Origins of the War? 10
In Search of Causality and Necessity: Aitiai and Prophasis 15
Fear, Honor, and Interest, and Thucydides’ other “Traps” 18
Trap 1: National Character 19
Trap 2: Governing System 20
Trap 3: Domestic Tranquility 21
Trap 4: Economic Power. 22
Trap 5: Leaders .23
Trap 6: Allies and Alliances 26
Trap 7: The Role of Tykē (Chance) in Peace and War .28
Assessing the “Allison Trap” 28
Conclusions: Destined for Difficult Diplomacy, Not for War 34
Geography, History, Destiny 37
Appendix 41
Notes 43
About the Author 62
A variety of individuals could be drawn to this classic portrayal of the essence of war such as: senior military and government officials engaged in defense matters, defense contractors, educators and students of military and foreign relations with emphasis upon China and the Pacific Rim, scholars of classical history such as ancient Egypt, Persia, Greek and Roman, and citizens having a global and progressive interest in better understanding the philosophical underpinnings of the nature of “men at war” and the needs for determining outcomes other than war and the needs for determining outcomes other than war.
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- Misenheimer, Alan Greeley
- liticians in many countries, notably China, have embraced this beguiling metaphor, coined by Harvard political science professor Graham Allison, as a framework for examining the likelihood
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