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Assigned the Melian Dialogue *seven times*. It's almost as if Thucydides serves a *disciplining* purpose, not just a disciplinary role. https://twitter.com/CarolineCBaxter/status/1288248760443838466
The other histories listed in the foreign policy link all deserve wider readership within the study of global politics, to be sure. But it would be nice if Thucydides was more widely read too -- of course, I mean this in a different sense...
Here, I do not mean read by more people. Bits of TPW are assigned far too often. No, by more widely read, I mean I wish that folks read more widely within Thucydides' text than the Melian Dialogue. It's so much more interesting than the IR primers would ever let on.
*taps mic* um, is this thing on.
I know I'm a bit late to the party here, but I've got a whole harangue about how the Thucydides Trap needs to be repositioned as an investigation of oligarchy & the deleterious effects of putting private interests first. For later, I suppose.
I know I'm a bit late to the party here, but I've got a whole harangue about how the Thucydides Trap needs to be repositioned as an investigation of oligarchy & the deleterious effects of putting private interests first. For later, I suppose.
