The Other Thucydides’ Trap

Sempa, F.P. (2018, Mar. 7). How to Avoid the Thucydides Trap: The Missing Piece. Retrieved from https://thediplomat.com/2018/03/how-to-avoid-the-thucydides-trap-the-missing-piece/

QUOTE: "While the United States cannot control the rise of the many formidable, global challenges it faces, this other Thucydides’ Trap is one that American citizens have it in their complete control to avoid. The world’s first great democracy eventually losing to a more authoritarian land power over a long conflict provides a close enough analogy to the present that American citizens should fight the prevailing culture of self and re-commit themselves to civic virtue." —Fred Zilian (Twitter: @FredZilian) is an adjunct professor at Salve Regina University, RI. He is the author of From Confrontation to Cooperation: The Takeover of the National People’s Army by the Bundeswehr.