Can there be just cause for purely preventive military action — action that aims to impede or destroy an adversary's capacity ...

Sparta’s fear. The first Peloponnesian War lasted 27 years, 431 – 404 BCE. Athens and Sparta, the two most famous cities of the ancient Greek world, were the chief adversaries.

The Peloponnesian War is the name given to the long series of conflicts between Athens and Sparta that lasted from 431 until 404 BC. The reasons for this war are sometimes traced back as far as ...

Victor over Athens in the Peloponnesian War: six letters.

How a trade war becomes a shooting war. Trump and Xi, take note: The United States and China risk falling into a trap over tariffs.

Donald Kagan, The Archidamian War (Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press, 1974), p. 333. However, Lazenby comes to the strange conclusion that Sparta still did more damage to Athens than Athens did to ...

Peloponnesian War. Security; Rethinking the “Thucydides Trap” Geopolitical tension looms over American politics, as was evident in last month’s debate when Kamala Harris claimed her rival ...

Nir Eisikovits, professor of philosophy and director of the Applied Ethics Center at UMass Boston, is the author of “Glory, Humiliation and the Drive to War.” Sixteen years into the ...

Before the Peloponnesian war, it was not interested in the domestic politics of others and preferred to be left alone. It headed the Peloponnesian League but was a passive leader.

The Peloponnesian War is the Everest of ancient military history, big and frightening. Hanson largely sidesteps the subject of strategy, which Kagan handles so masterfully. Instead, Hanson focuses on ...