Destined for war (Record no. 9037)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781911617303
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 327.7 ALL
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Allison, Graham T.
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Destined for war
Remainder of title can America and China escape Thucydides's trap?
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Boston
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2017
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xx, 364p. ; 24 cm.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES ARE HEADING TOWARD A WAR NEITHER WANTS. The reason is Thucydides's Trap, a deadly pattern of structural stress that results when a rising power challenges a ruling one. This phenomenon is as old as history itself. About the Peloponnesian War that devastated ancient Greece, the historian Thucydides explained: "It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this instilled in Sparta that made war inevitable." Over the past 500 years, these conditions have occurred sixteen times. War broke out in twelve of them. Today, as an unstoppable China approaches an immovable America and both Xi Jinping and Donald Trump promise to make their countries "great again," the seventeenth case looks grim. Unless China is willing to scale back its ambitions or Washington can accept becoming number two in the Pacific, a trade conflict, cyberattack, or accident at sea could soon escalate into all-out war. In Destined for War, the eminent Harvard scholar Graham Allison explains why Thucydides's Trap is the best lens for understanding U.S.-China relations in the twenty-first century. Through uncanny historical parallels and war scenarios, he shows how close we are to the unthinkable. Yet, stressing that war is not inevitable, Allison also reveals how clashing powers have kept the peace in the past -- and what painful steps the United States and China must take to avoid disaster today"
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War.
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        UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dodoma UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dodoma International Relations 01/17/2025   327.7 ALL URD001175 01/31/2025 01/17/2025 Book