Destined For War: Can America And China Escape ... May 2026

Allison suggests several factors make this seventeenth case particularly dangerous:

: Named after the ancient Greek historian Thucydides, who observed that the Peloponnesian War was caused by "the rise of Athens and the fear that this instilled in Sparta". Destined for War: Can America and China Escape ...

In his influential 2017 book, Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? , Harvard scholar Graham Allison warns that the United States and China are on a collision course. While he stresses that , he argues that historical structural forces make it much more likely than most leaders acknowledge. The Core Concept: Thucydides’s Trap Allison suggests several factors make this seventeenth case