Topic for our Tuesday, Sep 8 4:30 Zoom Session will be:

The History of the Thucydides Trap

This currently oft discussed topic has a 2500 years old angle
(established Sparta vs. a rising Athens), a last 500 years angle
(first fleshed out in a 2012 article, analyzing 16 older cases, by
Harvard Professor Graham Allison) and a very current angle of a rising
China vs. an established America.

We will focus on whichever of these aspects people find most interesting.

Good basic references include a copy of a 2015 Atlantic article  of Prof. Allison about this at

https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/centers/mrcbg/files/Allison%2C%202015.09.24%20The%20Atlantic%20-%20Thucydides%20Trap.pdf

and a Belfer Center at Harvard website with detailed summaries of the 16 last 500 years cases at

https://www.belfercenter.org/programs/thucydidess-trap/thucydidess-trap-case-file

A Graham Allison Ted talk (18:43) is at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XewnyUJgyA4

Graham Allison has also written a book (2017)

Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides
Trap?--A Critical Examination of Historical Patterns Leading to War
Between Great Powers

Some other possibilities are in a History Group Village Talk posting from August 19.

Lots of other articles and videaos available - try typing

Thucydides Trap

into your favorite search engine.