DESTINED FOR WAR : CAN AMERICA AND CHINA ESCAPE THUCYDIDES TRAP?

A Sunday Times and FT Book of the Year. When a rising power threatens to displace a ruling one, the most likely outcome is war. In this razor-sharp analysis, Harvard scholar Graham Allison examines the phenomenon known as Thucydides’s Trap, which is currently playing out between the world’s two biggest superpowers: the US and China.