The change in Presidential administrations will likely include an update to U.S. policies concerning China. There will likely be a renewed interest in Graham Allison’s “Thucydides Trap,” which claims that the ancient historian’s explanation of the Peloponnesian War uncovered a permanent feature of great power rivalry: the likelihood that leading powers and rising challengers will go to war. Many scholars … Continue reading Ancient Great Power Conflict: A Roman Counterpoint to Thucydides