China war inevitable? Perhaps that isn’t the lesson leaders should be taking from the ‘History of the Peloponnesian War.’ ...

In this analysis, Max Boot revisits Graham Allison’s “Thucydides Trap” theory to warn that the US-China trade war could spiral into something far more dangerous. Boot traces historical parallels - ...

The so-called Thucydides Trap has become a staple of foreign policy commentary over the past decade or so, regularly invoked to frame the escalating ...

No other ancient historian has written a book so insightful on the mechanisms of war as Thucydides' History of the ...

Overall, “Lysistrata” is an empty comedy. Satirical elements regarding the power imbalance between men and women in ancient ...

Finley is a Slugger reader from Belfast The relationship between the United States and China is now more strained than at any ...

The shortlist for the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction has been revealed by way of a treasure-hunt video.

Two of the six books on the shortlist for the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction are by Irish authors: The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry, set in Butte, Montana, in 1891, and Ferdia ...

Thucydides’ maxim from the 5th century B.C. that “the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must” seems to be ...