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Escaping Thucydides’s Trap

Dialogue with Graham Allison on China–US Relations

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Authors:
  1. Henry Huiyao Wang

    1. Center for China and Globalization (CCG), Beijing, China

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  • Responses to questions raised by Dr. Henry Huiyao Wang, Founder of CCG, through dialogues and personal meetings
  • Professor Graham Allison gives his latest thinking on how China and U.S. can avoid Thucydides’s Trap
  • Dr. Wang and Professor Allison explore possible solutions to challenges while providing valuable advice

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Table of contents (4 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxvii
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  2. Thucydides’s Trap Revisited

    • Henry Huiyao Wang
    Pages 1-7

  3. Tectonic Shifts

    • Henry Huiyao Wang
    Pages 9-64

  4. Are China and the U.S. Really “Destined for War”?

    • Henry Huiyao Wang
    Pages 65-87

  5. Avenues of Escape

    • Henry Huiyao Wang
    Pages 89-106

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 107-128
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About this book

The book raised the question of how relations between the US and China will unfold is one of the most consequential of the 21st century. In the past decade, perhaps no thinker has had a greater influence on how this question is understood in both the US and China than eminent Harvard scholar Graham Allison, who developed the idea of the Thucydides Trap to warn of the risk of war erupting between a rising power and a ruling power in the power transition process.

This book presents a comprehensive collection of Allison’s views and writings on US-China relations from 2017 to 2022, covering a range of topics including the balance of power between the two sides, where the relationship is headed, and lessons from history on how conflict can be avoided.

The book is presented in an accessible Q&A format and draws on interviews, articles, and reports, as well as dialogues between Professor Allisonand Dr. Huiyao Wang from the Center for China and Globalization (CCG), a non-governmental think tank based in Beijing. The book also includes an introduction and afterword by Dr. Huiyao Wang, CCG president and editor of this volume.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Center for China and Globalization (CCG), Beijing, China

    Henry Huiyao Wang

About the author

Henry Huiyao Wang Ph.D. is the Founder and President of CCG, a former Counselor of China State Council and Dean of the Institute of Development Studies at China’s Southwestern University of Finance and Economics.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Escaping Thucydides’s Trap

  • Book Subtitle: Dialogue with Graham Allison on China–US Relations

  • Authors: Henry Huiyao Wang

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2236-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-2235-2Published: 04 November 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-2238-3Due: 15 April 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-2236-9Published: 03 November 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXVII, 128

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: International Relations, Public Policy, Globalization

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