Thucydides trap

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An apparent tendency towards war when an emerging power threatens to displace an existing great power as a regional or international hegemon.
    — Even if a rising superpower (China) and a relatively declining superpower (the US) are not fated to fall into the “Thucydides trap” and go to war, periods of great power shifts almost invariably bring increased international tensions.

词形变化

Thucydides traps plural Thucydides' trap alternative

词源

An allusion to the ancient Athenian historian and military general Thucydides, who posited that the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta had been inevitable because of Spartan fears of the growth of Athenian power. Coined by American political scientist Graham T. Allison.
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