Parallels between the Peloponnesian War and the Ukraine conflict offer insights into power shifts, alliances and the cost of ...

China war inevitable? Perhaps that isn’t the lesson leaders should be taking from the ‘History of the Peloponnesian War.’ ...

The ancient world suffered immensely from plagues, like the 430 BC Athenian plague, which had lasting consequences for all of ...

demanding that its inhabitants either come over to Athens’s side in its long struggle against Sparta (known to Athenians as the Peloponnesian War) or be destroyed. Thucydides famously turned the ...

The course covers the emergence of the polis in the Dark Age, colonization and tyranny, the birth of democracy, the Persian Wars, the interdependence of democracy and Athenian imperialism, the ...

In 1945, during World War II, U.S. and Soviet forces linked up on the Elbe River, a meeting that dramatized the collapse of Nazi Germany’s defenses. Delegates from some 50 countries gathered in San ...

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Allison coined the term "Thucydides Trap," based on the ancient wars between Sparta and Athens, to describe the high likelihood of a rising power and an established hegemon going to war.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin ordered a three-day ceasefire to start at midnight on 8 May to coincide with a World War Two victory parade in Moscow ... there have been changes not reflected in the ...