Avoiding Thucydides’s Trap: Practical Actions, Desired Outcomes (Part II)

Mouse Trap

Application of Theories to Circumvent Thucydides’s Trap The goal of this text—to provide a plan of action and source of inspiration to those who wish to prevent America from falling into Thucydides’s Trap—and its relationship to the theories thus covered should not be difficult to surmise. Positional Insecurity Theory, Substitution Theory, and Distraction Theory all … Read more

Avoiding Thucydides’s Trap: Essential Theory, Practical Tactics, and a Call to Action for Responsible Citizens (Part I)

Bear Trap

Defining the Elite, Theories of Conflict, Theories of Control The rise of China is inevitable. The decline of the American empire is no less so. This constitutes the greatest shift of global power in several hundred years. All we—the American people—can do is choose how to respond to the foreordained. Without action on our part, … Read more