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$1.99: Destined For War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap? (eBook) by Graham Allison

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AuthorGraham Allison
PublisherMariner Books
Publication dateMay 30, 2017
Print length389 pages
Customer Reviews4.6⭐ / 2,458 ratings
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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 the likeliest result. Over the past five hundred years, these conditions have occurred sixteen times; war broke out in twelve.

At the time of publication, an unstoppable China approached an immovable America, and both Xi Jinping and Donald Trump promised to make their countries "great again," the seventeenth case was looking grim—it still is. A trade conflict, cyberattack, Korean crisis, or accident at sea could easily spark a major war.

In Destined for War, eminent Harvard scholar Graham Allison masterfully blends history and current events to explain the timeless machinery of Thucydides's Trap—and to explore the painful steps that might prevent disaster today.

SHORT-LISTED FOR THE 2018 LIONEL GELBER PRIZE
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: FINANCIAL TIMES * THE TIMES (LONDON)* AMAZON

"Allison is one of the keenest observers of international affairs around." — President Joe Biden

"[A] must-read book in both Washington and Beijing." — Boston Globe

"[Full of] wide-ranging, erudite case studies that span human history . . . [A] fine book."— New York Times Book Review

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AuthorGraham Allison
PublisherMariner Books
Publication dateMay 30, 2017
Print length389 pages
Customer Reviews4.6⭐ / 2,458 ratings
Great on Kindle

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 the likeliest result. Over the past five hundred years, these conditions have occurred sixteen times; war broke out in twelve.

At the time of publication, an unstoppable China approached an immovable America, and both Xi Jinping and Donald Trump promised to make their countries "great again," the seventeenth case was looking grim—it still is. A trade conflict, cyberattack, Korean crisis, or accident at sea could easily spark a major war.

In Destined for War, eminent Harvard scholar Graham Allison masterfully blends history and current events to explain the timeless machinery of Thucydides's Trap—and to explore the painful steps that might prevent disaster today.

SHORT-LISTED FOR THE 2018 LIONEL GELBER PRIZE
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: FINANCIAL TIMES * THE TIMES (LONDON)* AMAZON

"Allison is one of the keenest observers of international affairs around." — President Joe Biden

"[A] must-read book in both Washington and Beijing." — Boston Globe

"[Full of] wide-ranging, erudite case studies that span human history . . . [A] fine book."— New York Times Book Review

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Apr 18, 2025
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swacman1
Apr 18, 2025
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$18.99 on Google Play Books
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gusthegreek
Apr 18, 2025
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Sad but prophetic for our time.
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gunslingerfry
Apr 18, 2025
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Out since 2017 so it's a Trump era 1 book. Doesn't mean it isn't good but it might be a bit out of date.
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