{"id":83978,"date":"2023-12-05T15:55:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T04:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?p=83978"},"modified":"2024-01-09T13:34:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T02:34:43","slug":"the-thucydides-trap-becomes-the-asia-pacific-theme-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/the-thucydides-trap-becomes-the-asia-pacific-theme-song\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Thucydides trap\u2019 becomes the Asia\u2013Pacific theme song"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thucydides trap: from the Greek historian\u2019s statement that the alarm of the established power at the challenge of the rising power makes war inevitable.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Asia\u2013Pacific ponders the growing chances of war.<\/p>\n

Australia\u2019s policy community shares the region\u2019s unhappy understanding \u2018that nations can sleep-walk into war, even when rational, objective self-interest on all sides cries out against it\u2019. That nightmare scenario is described by Gareth Evans in the Australian chapter of the CSCAP Regional Security Outlook 2024<\/a>, produced by the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The editor of the annual survey, Ron Huisken, writes that the \u2018relentless intensification of tension and animosity\u2019 between China and the US has \u2018deflated the regional spirit, inflamed quarrels, replaced optimism with trepidation and made Thucydides Trap into something of a regional theme song\u2019.<\/p>\n

With that tune in their ears, Huisken notes, prominent commentators around the Asia\u2013Pacific \u2018speak openly about the risk of major power war\u2019.<\/p>\n

Taking the temperature of the Australian \u2018policy community\u2019, former Labor foreign minister Gareth Evans reports broad areas of Canberra agreement:<\/p>\n