POL114H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Axis Powers, Nationstates, Infamy Speech
Document Summary
In the wake of the persian retreat, however, athens grew more powerful. Chapter 2: history and global politics war and peace and tensions rose, escalating into nearly three decades of war between sparta and. Sparta emerged victorious, while the constant fighting left athens bankrupt, exhausted and demoralized. Neither city-state regained the military strength they once had, which enabled macedon (under philip) to dominate the greek peninsula. Thucydides, a contemporary historian, believed that the war broke out because of. Spartan fear of the rising power of athens, whose empire and capital increasingly isolated less imaginative and less adventurous rivals. What they are saying is that power matters most in relations between states when the states are clearly unequal in power. Issues of justice, of right and wrong, only arise in the relations of states of equal power. When power is highly asymmetric, it is only power that matters and the weak have no choice.
