Athens' Long Walls prompted distrust and eventual war 2,500 years ago. Nato is the most obvious 'Pericles Wall' of our times Much has been said about Thucydides' trap, but few talk about Pericles' ...

It is not your enmity that harms us so much as your friendship, which would be interpreted as evidence of our weakness, while your [...] More ...

In his classic study of the dynamics of war and public policy, Thucydides takes neither of these approaches, but rather chooses to analyze what he views as the enduring realities of man, his nature, ...

Thucydides, the ancient Greek historian of the Peloponnesian War between Sparta and Athens, has long been considered the father of both scientific history and political realism. But how extensive is ...

Instead, it's a call to action. From helping mediate in Ukraine to investing in the US, China may yet defy historical ...

The Peloponnesian War (431–404 BCE) ostensibly arose because of the fear that a rising Athens would threaten Sparta’s power in the Mediterranean. The idea of Thucydides’ Trap warns that all rising ...

Steven Kamin and Mark Sobel (“Mar-a-Lago Accord, Schmar-a-Lago Accord”, FT Alphaville, March 12) think that the US charging a “user fee” on US Treasuries held by allies or the selective freezing of ...

The ancient Greek historian Thucydides famously claimed that his work would be ‘a possession for all time’: not just the history of a single war between the Athenians and the Spartans, but a guide to ...

As Thucydides apprises us, the Athenians were rather blunt about the issue: “Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak ...

Who’s surprised? It’s an age-old debate. The political historian Thucydides anticipated the Trump-Zelenskyy conversation in detail in his “History of the Peloponnesian War,” in which the ...