The Atlantic article “The Thucydides Trap: Are the U.S. and China Headed for War?
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Read The Atlantic article “The
Thucydides Trap: Are the U.S. and China Headed for War? By
Professor Graham Allison, September 24,
2015.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/09/unite
On page 7 of the article there is a
table which shows the sixteen instances in which a ruling power and a rising power
came into conflict. In twelve (12) of the sixteen (16) occasions, the powers
went to war.
For your final exam, you are to prepare
a paper whose theme will be one of the twelve occasions that led to war, but not
World War I (Russia, U.K. France vs. Germany) or World War II (Soviet Union,
U.K. France vs. Germany) or (Japan vs. United States). Your paper should
provide the historical background which led to the confrontation, a short
retelling of the war, and an analysis of the ultimate outcome.
Your final exam should be typewritten,
on 8 ½ x 11-inch paper, double-spaced, with one-inch margins all around, using
Times New Roman, 12-point font, no title page, your name and the title of the
paper on the first page, pages numbered at bottom. Although I will not give you
a specific length for the paper, I expect it to be between five- and ten-pages
long.
Your final exam, together will all
written materials for the second half of the semester, is due not later than Friday,
August 21st, 2020.
