The world has come to another crossroads,” Chinese President Xi Jinping told U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday, as the two leaders began their summit in Beijing. Then Xi asked: “Can China and ...

At the 2026 #USCanadaSummit in Toronto, hosted by Eurasia Group and RBC, Ian Bremmer breaks down the idea of a US-China ...

A historical analogy from ancient Greece has become the go-to maxim for understanding the rivalry between the US and China.

China’s leader raised the ancient Greek historian Thucydides when he met the US president in Beijing A messy war in the Middle East. Tensions in Taiwan. When the leaders of the world’s two superpowers ...

At the high-stakes summit with President Donald Trump last month in Beijing, President Xi Jinping reached for an esoteric ...

Thucydides is on a roll these days. The ancient Greek historian of the Peloponnesian War, who lived almost 2,500 years ago, makes the title of Graham Allison’s prominent new volume, Destined for War: ...

A plaster cast bust of the Athenian historian and general Thucydides made in the early 1900s based on a copy of an early 4th Century BCE Greek original. (Credit: Shakko/Wikimedia Commons) During his ...

This article is authored by Amit Ranjan Alok, doctoral candidate, Chinese Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Given recent interest in the work of the ancient Athenian soldier-turned-historian Thucydides in the foreign policy community—primarily due to Harvard academic Graham Allison’s popularization of the ...