POLS 264 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Multilateralism, Offensive Realism, Henry Kissinger
16 Mar 2017
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History is evoked on both sides with the us using it as a menace and china using it as a history of restoration. These is a tendency in academic literature to focus on history and what it can teach us of the future especially true in the case of china . Arguments that just as there was no easy escape of either athens or sparta from. Thucydides"s trap, so too are the leader of the us and china caught in a trap of their own . Said that the later people will look at the conflict that will follow and cite the trap. Kissinger: evokes the historical example of the rise of germany in the early 1900"s and how this later played out. Mearsheimer: (offensive realism) the key for him is to look at american history as a guide for what we are likely to see out of china specifically us hegemony and the way it rose.
