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Destined for War

Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap

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ID6235632
AuthorsHugo Bras Martins Da Costa (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume12
Issue3
Publication date2018-10-11
Open AccessYes
TypeREVIEW
Review ofDestined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?, Graham Allison, 2017
VenueBrazilian Political Science Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1981-3821 • E-ISSN: 1981-3821
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/1981-3821201800030008
OpenAlexW2894060539
SciELOS1981-38212018000300600
LanguageEN
References cited1

What is 'Destined for War's' main argument? In sum, the impact of a rising China on the United States and the global order under American hegemony are leading these two nations toward an avoidable violent clash, which neither one wants, because they risk falling into what the author calls 'Thucydides's Trap

Argument (complex analysis · China · Economics · Falling (accident · Geography · Hegemony · Meteorology · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Trap (plumbing · History · Law · Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

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