Are the U.S. and China Still Destined for War?

By Graham Allison

Graham Allison is a Professor of Government at the John K. Kennedy School at Harvard University. He was the Founding Dean of the Kennedy School and until recently the Director of the School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

A lot has happened since China expert and Harvard Professor Graham Allison’s best-selling book on China, Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides Trap was published in 2017.

Thucydides was a Greek historian who chronicled close to three decades of war between Athens and Sparta and documented patterns of behavior between ruling and rising powers.  In his book, Allison looked at centuries of conflict between ruling and rising powers, also looking for patterns in how powers challenged each other.

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