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Thucydides on asymmetrical relations between states: Rationality and its limits

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Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War is more than a brilliant year-by-year narrative of a terrible, lengthy conflict, it is also a profound meditation on international relations. Thucydides has often been read as a simple sort of “Realist” – a theorist of power relations under conditions of inter-state anarchy. But that characterization misses his deep […]

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