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Why Are China and the U.S. Not Destined to Fall into the “Thucydides’ Trap”? [PDF]
China Quarterly of International Strategic Studies, 2018 With the rise of China and relative decline of the United States, the question of whether both countries will fall into the so-called “Thucydides’ Trap” — an analogy to the Peloponnesian War in ancient Greece — has triggered heated debate within ...
Ling Shengli, Lv Huiyi
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Educational Theory, Volume 75, Issue 2, Page 171-187, April 2025.Abstract How should Deweyan educators teach their students about engaging in efforts to bring about social change in a political context marked by polarization, power differentials, and oppression? In this article, Joshua Forstenzer argues that Deweyan educators must encourage their students to engage in pluralistic and creative experiments rather than
Joshua Forstenzer
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, 2001 This paper examines Herodotus\u27 use of words of the ananke family in order to determine which external of internal constraints the historian represents as affecting the causality of events. M.
Munson, Rosaria Vignolo
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Literature Compass, Volume 22, Issue 1, March 2025.ABSTRACT This article explores the intersection of immunological discourse and literary narrative through the works of T.S. Eliot and J.M. Coetzee. The paper examines the early twentieth‐century shift from holistic disease models to germ theory, paralleling this scientific evolution with Eliot's use of chemical metaphors in “Tradition and the ...
Huiming Liu
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Echoes of Longinus in Gregory of Nyssa [PDF]
, 1999 Gregory's stylistic criticisms of his opponent in Against Eunomius show the terminological influence of the Art of Rhetoric and Philological Discourses of the third-century critic Cassius Longinus.
Heath, M.
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The ends of history? Jerome, Geruchia, and the Rhine crossings
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 71-93, February 2025.This article revisits Jerome’s treatment of the Rhine crossings of 406 in his letter to the widow Geruchia, and the broader issue of breaching the Roman limes. It argues that his description of the events in Gaul and on the border was framed to fit his notion of the history of salvation.
Mateusz Fafinski
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Cassius Dio\u27s Livia and the Conspiracy of Cinna Magnus [PDF]
, 2011 The dialogue between Livia and Augustus about the conspiracy of Cinna Magnus (Dio 55.14-22) subtly undermines Livia, portraying her clemency as Machiavellian, in a manner consistent with Dio’s view of powerful ...
Adler, Eric
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A new Thucydides Trap? How traditional defense buildups can exacerbate contemporary power decline
Frontiers in Political ScienceThe Thucydides Trap describes the tendency for power transitions to culminate in war. The dominant power’s fear of displacement prompts defensive buildups which can spiral into armed conflict. The historical recurrence of this pattern has raised concerns
Ryan R. Swan
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“La guerra maestra violenta”. Polemos e stasis nel pensiero di Tucidide
Philosophy Kitchen, 2015 In this paper, I intend to provide an in-depth analysis of Thucydides’ account of war in the third section of his Xyngraphé. Despite most of his early commentators accused him of certain obscurity, the notions of polemos and stasis he introduces in this ...
Dino Piovan
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Chronotopes of exile and loss in Philip O'Sullivan Beare's Zoilomastix (c. 1626)☆
Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 60-80, February 2025.Abstract This essay explores the relationship between an early modern exile and his native environment, as depicted in Philip O'Sullivan Beare's unfinished natural history Zoilomastix. Writing by turns in Latin, Spanish and Gaelic from the safety of the Habsburg court, O'Sullivan Beare marshalled Ciceronian rhetoric and Plinian wonder to argue for the ...
Kevin Gerard Tracey
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