During their high-stakes meeting in Beijing this week, Chinese President Xi Jinping reportedly asked US President Donald Trump if the two countries could overcome the “Thucydides trap”. This phrase, ...

Sparta’s class of elite warriors were freed from ordinary work, their needs met by slaves. The system had a built-in weakness ...

Chinese premier cited ancient Greek history to issue warning to Donald Trump ...

Athens and Sparta represented for classical thinkers distinct and opposing regimes. Democratic Athens took pride in its freedom, openness, and accomplishments in the arts and philosophy. Oligarchic ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping invoked the Thucydides Trap in a pointed warning to Donald Trump, using ancient Greek history to frame US-China rivalry, rising power tensions and the Taiwan flashpoint, ...

Bagnall (The Punic Wars, 2005), a former British army chief of the general staff, completed this rigorous study of ancient Greece's 27-year civil war just before his death in 2002. A seminal event in ...

The most familiar translation of his words, from 1875, is that It was the rise of Athens, and the fear this aroused in Sparta ...

That weapon alone is forged out of several raw materials, such as iron and bauxite, which Israel would have to import, should ...

Now that the war in Gaza appears to have come to an end and Hamas has returned the remaining 20 living hostages to their families, we can fully expect Israel’s enemies and other critics across the ...