Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?

by Graham Allison

Book Overview

NATIONAL BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR. From an eminent international security scholar, an urgent examination of the conditions that could produce a catastrophic conflict between the United States and China--and how it might be prevented.

China and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants. The reason is Thucydides's Trap: when a rising power threatens to displace a ruling one, violence is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1328915387
• ISBN13: 9781328915382
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.2" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

War and Peace?

This is American warning to China! China had been abused and bullied since the 19th Century Opium Wars and suffered humiliating defeats with ceding lands and heavy indemnity. Peking was attacked by the Eight Countries Invasion to enter 20th Century. Chinese people never forgot this national infamy and dedicated their lives for a strong, wealthy and powerful country not as a hegemon but as a moral teacher. China followed the doctrine of Dr Sun Yat-sen in Three People’s Principles and in the opening under Premier Deng, China catches up as the world second economy. Washington politicians are alarmed and see China rise as a threat. This book tries to answer that critical question. In China thousands of years of history, did China gain power by conquer and murder? There were no shock and awe to gain land and power!! China five hundred years ago was powerful in politics economy and administration while Europe just came out from Dark Age and America was barren needing exploration and development. A strong China is nothing new. Maybe Washington need to change attitude and logic to accept the status. Look at Covid19, who is doing a better job?