What did Thucydides really say on this? And what’s Athens and Sparta got to do with the current state of US-China relations?

Chinese President Xi Jinping invoked the Thucydides Trap in a pointed warning to Donald Trump, using ancient Greek history to ...

Athens and Sparta represented for classical thinkers distinct and opposing regimes. Democratic Athens took pride in its freedom, openness, and accomplishments in the arts and philosophy. Oligarchic ...

That weapon alone is forged out of several raw materials, such as iron and bauxite, which Israel would have to import, should ...

China’s leader raised the ancient Greek historian Thucydides when he met the US president in Beijing ...

Few issues capture observers’ attention like the rivalry between China and the United States. Analysts scrutinize political trends and profile political leaders in both countries. Economists track ...

Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC) holds crucial lessons about the nature of great power war, beyond the much-vaunted cause and effect construction of the outbreak of ...

Bagnall (The Punic Wars, 2005), a former British army chief of the general staff, completed this rigorous study of ancient Greece's 27-year civil war just before his death in 2002. A seminal event in ...