A review by seeyf
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? by Graham Allison

4.0

Allison’s Thucydides’s Trap Project studied 16 cases where a major nation's rise disrupted the position of a dominant state, of which 12 ended in war. A breezy read with interesting analysis of how wars are sparked or averted. However parts of his argument seem a tad deterministic: that the US and China will always have fundamentally irreconcilable cultural differences i.e. Huntington’s Clash of Civilisations, or that China’s growth is unstoppable (ignoring the demographic and other traps covered in Magnus’ Red Flags)