In his speech to this year’s World Economic Forum at Davos, Canadian prime minister Mark Carney mourned the demise of ...

Retreat of the Athenians from Syracuse during a battle of the Peloponnesian War, from Cassell's 'Universal History,' published in 1888. Ken Welsh/Design Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) ...

How do you turn a metaphor into an axiom? Try: “Strategist appropriation.” When writing on politics and war, this means lardering your first few graphs with maxims from so-called “masters of war,” ...

Last month at War on the Rocks, Marine War College professor Jim Lacey held forth on how to teach Thucydides. Read the whole thing and hurry back! Let’s congratulate Professor Lacey for raising ...

Thucydides surely did not lack ambition. He hoped his massive narrative would be “a possession for all time.” In writing his first and only book, Thucydides claimed It will be enough for me if these ...

Graham Allison, as early as 2013 but also last year in his book, “Destined for War,” created quite a buzz with his concept of the Thucydides’ Trap: “When one great power threatens to displace another, ...

In the aftermath of the 2016 elections, an intense and widening divide resurfaced among Americans. While initial fissures in U.S. society revealed themselves over twenty years ago, the split increased ...

In the conflict between Athens and Sparta, the Melians tried in vain to maintain their neutrality. As Thucydides apprises us, the Athenians were rather blunt about the issue: “Right, as the world goes ...

If any were ever written, no ancient work on strategy survives. That does not mean the ancients did not understand strategy. In this work, Greek university professors Koliopoulos and Platias argue ...

This year is the 50th anniversary of the “Summer of Love,” those months in 1967 when a hundred thousand hippies convened in Haight-Ashbury. Flower children held a Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park, and ...

When an emerging power threatens to displace an existing great power, as a regional or international hegemon, a Thucydides’ Trap is said to be in the making. The term is based on a quote by ancient ...