Using water to enforce a political agenda is a global concern for peacebuilding. Hence,
understanding hydro-politics is essential when predicting possible water-based conflict …

Abstract The Peloponnesian War, a conflict between the Greek city-states of Athens and
Sparta and their respective allies, is held to be a classic example of war between a …

In the last few years, Graham Allison's “Thucydides' Trap” has stimulated much discussion
within International Relations (IR). Most IR scholars understand Thucydides' Trap as a …

In Books 6 and 7 Thucydides' narrative is, as Plutarch puts it,'at its most emotional, vivid, and
varied'as he describes the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415 …

It is a well-established idea in mainstream International Relations theory that the ancient
Greek historian Thucydides was a Realist and the originator of some key Realist ideas. The …

The US presence in East Asia is not simply a result of the victory over Japan in WW2, but a
legacy of the US takeover of the Spanish overseas empire in 1898. Today, the threat of war …

Transboundary water challenges have prompted by many scholars to investigate the
relationship between water conflict/cooperation and International Relations theories. To …

I n his recent book A History of Trust in Ancient Greece, Steven Johnstone emphasizes the
ancient Greeks' public, political effort to create trust in impersonal institutions. Although …

This chapter investigates how key concepts are situated in Thucydides' text and how
receptions of Thucydides that claim transhistorical validity relate to his concept map. In …

This volume surveys democracy broadly as a cultural phenomenon operating in different
ways across a very wide range of ancient societies throughout Antiquity. It examines the …