Robert Stone
Author's Articles
The “Thucydides Trap” Trap: Are Modern Strategists Misreading Ancient History?
The “Thucydides Trap” Trap: Are Modern Strategists Misreading Ancient History?
Robert Stone and Josh Hammond challenge the prevailing "fortune cookie" readings of Thucydides that dominate modern foreign policy and international relations theory. They discuss how common translations distort original Greek concepts like greatness, power,…
Trapped by the Tradition: Reading Thucydides on Strategy and Policy
Trapped by the Tradition: Reading Thucydides on Strategy and Policy
Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War has gained new prominence as the United States engages in great-power competition with China, as that emerging geopolitical competition is often explained through parallels with the ancient rivalry between Athens…