Rethinking the Thucydides Trap: A Manufactured Narrative? The Thucydides Trap — as made famous today by Graham Allison and many geopolitical analysts — paints war between a rising power (like China) and a ruling power (like the U.S.) as a natural, almost inevitable process. But seen through a deeper, critical lens, it becomes clear: In … Continue reading The Thucydides Trap as Propaganda: War as Elite Strategy, Not Inevitable Conflict