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Thucydides traps

Thucydides traps is the plural of Thucydides trap.

Meaning of Thucydides trap

Noun

Thucydides trap (plural Thucydides traps)

  1. An apparent tendency towards war when an emerging power threatens to displace an existing great power as a regional or international hegemon.
    • Even if a rising superpower (China) and a relatively declining superpower (the US) are not fated to fall into the “Thucydides trap” and go to war, periods of great power shifts almost invariably bring increased international tensions.2025 May 10, Timothy Garton Ash, “Brace for disorder as the great global power shifts again”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9

Questions about Thucydides traps

What is Thucydides traps the plural of?
Thucydides traps is the plural of Thucydides trap.

Words near Thucydides traps in the dictionary

  1. thuck
  2. Thucydidean
  3. Thucydideans
  4. Thucydides
  5. Thucydides trap
  6. Thucydides traps
  7. Thucydidesian
  8. Thucydidian
  9. thud
  10. thud and blunder
  11. thudded

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