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Graham Allison on "Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?"
Graham Allison on "Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?"
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Length:
22 minutes
Released:
Jul 20, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Thucydides's Trap is the dangerous dynamic that occurs when a rising power threatens to displace a ruling power, explains Harvard's Graham Allison. So is war between China and the United States inevitable? No, says Allison, but both nations will have to make "painful adaptations and adjustments" to avoid it, starting with U.S. policy adjustments regarding the South China Sea and the Korean Peninsula.
Released:
Jul 20, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
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