No other ancient historian has written a book so insightful on the mechanisms of war as Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War.

As in Thucydides’ time, the Trump administration’s war posture promises short-term gains but long-run disaster.

Ancient Greek historian Thucydides has defined the identities of Greeks and  "barbarians" based on colonial influence.

EADaily, April 22nd, 2026. Members of Donald Trump's administration try on the toga of the Greek historian Thucydides and ...

Geopolitical tension looms over American politics, as was evident in last month’s debate when Kamala Harris claimed her rival “sold us out” to China. Though election rhetoric has heightened these ...

In the conflict between Athens and Sparta, the Melians tried in vain to maintain their neutrality. As Thucydides apprises us, the Athenians were rather blunt about the issue: “Right, as the world goes ...

Graham Allison, as early as 2013 but also last year in his book, “Destined for War,” created quite a buzz with his concept of the Thucydides’ Trap: “When one great power threatens to displace another, ...

In the aftermath of the 2016 elections, an intense and widening divide resurfaced among Americans. While initial fissures in U.S. society revealed themselves over twenty years ago, the split increased ...

How do you turn a metaphor into an axiom? Try: “Strategist appropriation.” When writing on politics and war, this means lardering your first few graphs with maxims from so-called “masters of war,” ...

Thucydides surely did not lack ambition. He hoped his massive narrative would be “a possession for all time.” In writing his first and only book, Thucydides claimed It will be enough for me if these ...

The political scientist Graham Allison famously warned that the two countries could fall into what he called “the Thucydides trap,” based on the idea that war is likely when a rising state threatens ...