Re: The concept of a 'Thucydides trap' is misguided

It is common sense, and he avoids the errors too many are making these days
(but why pick on Harvard yet again...).  As a tweeter named ThucydidesBot
has said, nothing very new here, but the column is worthwhile and
informative for many readers.

Dan

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 12:06 PM Mark Davidson <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Some common sense about Thucydides for once, in an article by Robert
> Zaretsky in the NYT:
>
> "Is it possible that the real trap, though, is the still widely
> unquestioned assumption that Thucydides was a political realist? That if he
> does offer lessons, they are not found in the study of international
> relations but in the study of human nature? That his brand of realism has
> little to do with the work of modern political theorists and much to do
> with the work of ancient tragedians?"
>
> Full article:
>
> https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2019%2F10%2F16%2Fopinion%2Ftrump-history-lessons.html&amp;data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40lsv.uky.edu%7Cb1fd0486b1ee4d75249808d75253d31a%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C0%7C637068392292591972&amp;sdata=lUvs3hnuwhT5VpKeFRk7k6i5iKsIzndayDvDU%2Ft6z6Y%3D&amp;reserved=0
>
> Mark D
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