Tag: Thucydides Trap

Commonality and humanity take a back seat in geopolitics, but they should be the focal point.

There is some truth in observing that Europe and the United States will fight to the last Ukrainian.

Ruling out the cataclysmic scenario of war, Mexico has a lot to lose and a lot to gain in the spaces that are opened by this struggle between the powers in today’s Thucydides’ trap.

The founding father of history, Thucydides, argued that a military conflict between two states is inevitable when a rising power is catching up with the ruling one.

The United States is ... engaged in an all-out confrontation with China ... to prevent it from taking position as the leading world power.

When discussing the U.S.-China conflict, what we are really talking about is the Thucydides Trap — the struggle between an existing power and an emerging power.

The effects of this Asian renaissance have reached every corner of the globe, impacting economics, business and culture; no one in the West or East is exempt from Asian influence.

China and the U.S. would create a new international order, based on the recognition that the (inevitably) rising new power should be granted a role in shaping global rules and institutions.

Iran is not the Iran it was 30 years ago.