Athenian historian Thucydides theorized in the 5th Century B.C. that a rising power will eventually always challenge the ruling one. Graham Allison of Harvard’s Kennedy School joins us to talk about how this theory is playing out today, which he writes about in “Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).
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