#Thucydides

Chinese President Xi Jinping invoked the ancient Greek historian Thucydides when he met the US president Donald Trump in Beijing. Does the reference to Thucydides Trap necessarily imply a reference to an ancient war or to “hegemonic stability”?

From Time RSS Feed: Xi Warns Trump of ‘Thucydides’ Trap.’ What to Know About China’s Favorite Greek Reference for U.S. Relations

Reading a long-form piece on, say, the Peloponnesian War. Thucydides gets mentioned as a primary...