‘Thucydides’ Trap’

The real ‘Thucydides Trap’ Beijing and Washington must avoid

6 June 2026 9:00 am

These are good times to be a scholar of the classical world. Last summer, Donald Trump issued an order that…

Who started the Cold War?

14 June 2025 9:00 am

It was America, with its decision to build a global liberal order – not the Soviet Union, with plans to spread communism in Europe, argues Vladislav Zubok

An airborne early warning system leads fighter jets during a military parade in Beijing

China syndrome

15 July 2017 9:00 am

Every day on his way to work at Harvard, Professor Allison wondered how the reconstruction of the bridge over Boston’s…