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100 1  Allison, Graham T.,|eauthor. 
245 10 Destined for war :|bcan America and China escape 
       Thucydides's trap? /|cGraham Allison. 
264  1 Boston :|bHoughton Mifflin Harcourt,|c2017. 
300    xx, 364 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-348) and 
       index. 
520    "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 10 Thucydides.|tHistory of the Peloponnesian War. 
650  0 War|xCauses. 
651  0 United States|xForeign relations|zChina.