What turns rivalry into war? History suggests it is rarely ideology or ambition alone. More often, it is fear, miscalculation ...

OP-ED. Today's middle powers are reshaping their alliances to confront Donald Trump's United States, much as the Sicilian ...

You don’t often find the philosopher Donald Trump of Queens and the historian Thucydides of Athens in the same article. Kudos, as Thucydides would say to Foreign Policy magazine. A Foreign Policy ...

Term of the Day: The Thucydides Trap describes the danger when a rising power (China) threatens a ruling power (USA). History shows this often ends in war. Currently, tensions over AI, chips, and ...

I had thought that reading Robin Waterfield’s new translation of Thucydides’ “History of the Peloponnesian War” might offer some understanding, even some consolation, in these times of domestic ...

Samuel Gartland is Associate Professor in Ancient Greek History and Culture at the University of Leeds. Robin Osborne is Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at Cambridge. Reassessing the ...

The strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must. This phrase has been invoked by political pundits and leaders, including the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, over the past few days as ...

Neville Morley does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...