Thucydides' Trap?
Thucydides’ Trap? Chinese observers now believe that the US is driven by fear and envy to contain China in every possible way The writer served as executive editor of The Express Tribune from 2009 to 2014 When an emerging power threatens to displace an existing great power, as a regional or international hegemon, a Thucydides’ Trap is said to be in the making. The term is based on a quote by ancient Athenian historian and military general Thucydides, which theorised that the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta had been inevitable because of Spartan fears of the growth of Athenian...