POLS 264 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Siege Of Melos, Stephen Bannon, Peloponnesian League
8 Feb 2017
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The key element is the idea that nothing changes over time and space the essence of the relations between independent political units remains always the same. The melian dialogue as an example: the athens would destroy the melians if they remained neutral between athens and sparta. Melian"s believed they would be saved by the gods and sparta but neither came to their defense and melos was destroyed by athenians. The rise of athens and the spartan security dilemma: for sparta, which had been the dominant polis, athens posed the possibility that it could dominate sparta. This rivalry lead to the peloponnesian war (413-404 bce) Peloponnesian league (lacedaemon/sparta) vs. delian league (athens) Lead to the dynamic: the growth of the power of athens, and the alarm which this inspired in lacedaemon, made war inevitable as thucydides now this dynamic is called thucydides trap. Applying this to the present, the growth of chinese power has begun to threaten america .
