Allison, Graham T. (2017). Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’ Trap? London, United Kingdom: Scribe Publications

Abstract

The geopolitical landscape of the world has seen rapid deterioration, in terms of the stability of the existing international system. But even before this deterioration, the international has been termed as being anarchic in nature. The current ‘global disorder’ – as I prefer to refer to it – is witnessing a whirlwind in declining Western power. One can say that we – as an international political community – are at a Y-Junction, where the world makes do with the global hegemony of the United States, where the choices are between another unilaterally-decided world system or a reformed and inclusive multi-lateral one.