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DESCRIPTION:The Moynihan International Affairs Seminar Series presents Mich
 ael DeschWhy should we read the fifth century BC Greek historian Thucydide
 s’ chronicle of the great war between Athens and Sparta? Thucydides famous
 ly wrote his work “as a possession for all time” (I\, 22.4) and statesmen 
 and thinkers since then have found great wisdom in his history. Most recen
 tly\, Harvard professor and former Defense Department official Graham Alli
 son held up the changing power relationship between Athens and Sparta as a
  model and cautionary tale concerning contemporary U.S.-China relations. A
 re rising and falling great powers in danger of falling into a “Thucydides
  trap” of war or is this a misreading of Thucydides’ history?ROOM CHANGE T
 O 060 EGGERS HALLAbout the Speaker:Michael C. Desch is Packey J. Dee Profe
 ssor of International Relations at the University of Notre Dame and Brian 
 and Jeannelle Brady Family Director of the Notre Dame International Securi
 ty Center. He served two terms as chair of the Department of Political Sci
 ence. He was also the founding director of the Scowcroft Institute of Inte
 rnational Affairs and the first holder of the Robert M. Gates Chair in Int
 elligence and National Security Decision-Making at the George Bush School 
 of Government and Public Service at Texas A&amp\;M University from 2004 th
 rough 2008. From 1993 through 1998\, he was assistant director and senior 
 research associate at the Olin Institute.&nbsp\;He spent two years (1988-9
 0) as a John M. Olin Post-Doctoral Fellow in National Security at Harvard 
 University's Olin Institute for Strategic Studies\, among other positions.
  He received a B.A. (with honors) in political science (1982) from Marquet
 te University\, an A.M. in international relations (1984) and a Ph.D. in p
 olitical science (1988) from the University of Chicago.&nbsp\;
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SUMMARY:Thucydides and American Grand Strategy: War is an Option not a Trap
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>The Moynihan International Affairs Seminar 
 Series presents Michael Desch<br><br>Why should we read the fifth century 
 BC Greek historian Thucydides’ chronicle of the great war between Athens a
 nd Sparta? Thucydides famously wrote his work “as a possession for all tim
 e” (I\, 22.4) and statesmen and thinkers since then have found great wisdo
 m in his history. Most recently\, Harvard professor and former Defense Dep
 artment official Graham Allison held up the changing power relationship be
 tween Athens and Sparta as a model and cautionary tale concerning contempo
 rary U.S.-China relations. Are rising and falling great powers in danger o
 f falling into a “Thucydides trap” of war or is this a misreading of Thucy
 dides’ history?<br></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0\, 0\, 0\, 
 0)\; color: inherit\; font-size: inherit\; text-align: inherit\; text-tran
 sform: inherit\; white-space: inherit\; word-spacing: normal\; caret-color
 : auto"><span style="font-family: open_sanssemibold\, Arial\, Verdana\, sa
 ns-serif"><strong>ROOM CHANGE TO 060 EGGERS HALL<br></strong></span></span
 ><span style="background-color: rgba(0\, 0\, 0\, 0)\; color: inherit\; fon
 t-family: inherit\; font-size: inherit\; text-align: inherit\; text-transf
 orm: inherit\; white-space: inherit\; word-spacing: normal\; caret-color: 
 auto">About the Speaker:</span><br></p><p>Michael C. Desch is Packey J. De
 e Professor of International Relations at the University of Notre Dame and
  Brian and Jeannelle Brady Family Director of the Notre Dame International
  Security Center. </p><p>He served two terms as chair of the Department of
  Political Science. He was also the founding director of the Scowcroft Ins
 titute of International Affairs and the first holder of the Robert M. Gate
 s Chair in Intelligence and National Security Decision-Making at the Georg
 e Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&amp\;M Universit
 y from 2004 through 2008. </p><p>From 1993 through 1998\, he was assistant
  director and senior research associate at the Olin Institute.&nbsp\;He sp
 ent two years (1988-90) as a John M. Olin Post-Doctoral Fellow in National
  Security at Harvard University's Olin Institute for Strategic Studies\, a
 mong other positions. He received a B.A. (with honors) in political scienc
 e (1982) from Marquette University\, an A.M. in international relations (1
 984) and a Ph.D. in political science (1988) from the University of Chicag
 o.&nbsp\;</p>
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