Thucydides' Trap is > an apparent tendency towards war when an emerging power threatens to displace an existing great power as a regional or international hege

Thucydides' Trap is > an apparent tendency towards war when an emerging power threatens to displace an existing great power as a regional or international hegemon > based on a quotation of ancient Athenian historian and military general Thucydides, in which he posited that the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta had been inevitable because of Spartan fears of the growth of Athenian power https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides_Trap https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides_Trap As well, the Criticism section from the same page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides_Trap#Criticism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides_Trap#Criticism