Dr. Patrick directs the Global Order and Institutions Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Members of the Trump administration have been channeling their inner Thucydides, ...

Few issues capture observers’ attention like the rivalry between China and the United States. Analysts scrutinize political trends and profile political leaders in both countries. Economists track ...

Power rarely collapses from weakness. It collapses from the consequences of misjudgement. The confrontation between the US and Israel with Iran may prove to be one of those moments. My late professor ...

Barry Keoghan is wondering what’s in a name. The Banshees of Inisherin actor has had the public curious about how to pronounce his Irish last name, so he was thrilled when BBC Radio 1 host Greg James ...

Thucydides is having another moment. Donald Trump’s foreign policy has provoked a rash of allusions to a line from the Melian Dialogue: ‘The strong do what they want, the weak suffer what they must.’ ...

Honorable daughters, peace be upon you. Hope you are enjoying your school. Come closer because I am an old man, as you can see, and can only speak softly. The girls lean in. I will tell you an ancient ...

Stellantis may still be called Chrysler by many, but the company's full name yields an array of pronunciations. Some use a soft "a" vowel sound in the middle. Others use a hard "a" sound. Some, like ...

You gotta love a speech that opens with Thucydides. For those of us steeped in the ideas of George Kennan, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s call for “value-based realism” and a “third way” of ...

Today's middle powers are reshaping their alliances to confront Donald Trump's United States, much as the Sicilian city-states did against imperialist Athens in the 5th century BCE, historian Robert ...

You don’t often find the philosopher Donald Trump of Queens and the historian Thucydides of Athens in the same article. Kudos, as Thucydides would say to Foreign Policy magazine. The realist tries to ...

To paraphrase a famous adage, 'cometh the hour, cometh the man', now it is 'cometh the man, cometh the mayhem.' It has been a year since the Trump 2024 Presidential inauguration, and, to put it ...

To understand the genesis of this phrase, one must look back to the Athenian historian Thucydides, who analyzed the war that destroyed the two great city-states of classical Greece. He famously ...