Thucydides trap

短语

发音

/θjuːˈsɪdɪdiːz tɹæp/

词形变化

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别名

Thucydides' trap

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An apparent tendency towards war when an emerging power threatens to displace an existing great power as a regional or international hegemon.

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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