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100	1		_aAllison, Graham T., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aDestined for war : _bcan America and China escape Thucydides's trap? / _cGraham Allison.
260			_aBoston, New York _bHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company _cc2017
264		1	_aBoston : _bHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, _c2017.
300			_axx, 364 pages ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES ARE HEADING TOWARD A WAR NEITHER WANTS. The reason is Thucydides's Trap, a deadly pattern of structural stress that results when a rising power challenges a ruling one. This phenomenon is as old as history itself. About the Peloponnesian War that devastated ancient Greece, the historian Thucydides explained: "It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this instilled in Sparta that made war inevitable." Over the past 500 years, these conditions have occurred sixteen times. War broke out in twelve of them. Today, as an unstoppable China approaches an immovable America and both Xi Jinping and Donald Trump promise to make their countries "great again," the seventeenth case looks grim. Unless China is willing to scale back its ambitions or Washington can accept becoming number two in the Pacific, a trade conflict, cyberattack, or accident at sea could soon escalate into all-out war. In Destined for War, the eminent Harvard scholar Graham Allison explains why Thucydides's Trap is the best lens for understanding U.S.-China relations in the twenty-first century. Through uncanny historical parallels and war scenarios, he shows how close we are to the unthinkable. Yet, stressing that war is not inevitable, Allison also reveals how clashing powers have kept the peace in the past -- and what painful steps the United States and China must take to avoid disaster today"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aThucydides. _tHistory of the Peloponnesian War.
610			_2War _aCauses
610			_2United States _vForeign relations _zChina
650		0	_aWar _xCauses.
650		7	_aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aHISTORY / Military / General. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aHISTORY / Asia / China. _2bisacsh
651		0	_aUnited States _xForeign relations _zChina.
651		0	_aChina _xForeign relations _zChina.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aAllison, Graham T., author. _tDestined for war _dBoston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017 _z9780544935334 _w(DLC) 2017022333
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