Article #81493

South China Morning Post - World News

South China Morning Post - World News

Title Hegemony or balance of power? What the wars of ancient China teach us Source South China Morning Post - World News
Description The historian A.J.P. Taylor wrote one of the most powerful openings of any book. “In the state of nature which Hobbes imagined, violence was the only law, and life was ‘nasty brutish and short’,” he wrote in The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848-1918. “Though individuals never lived in this state of nature, the Great Powers of Europe have always done so. Sovereign states have distinguished European civilisation, at any rate since the end of the fifteenth century. Each individual state in...
Link https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3360640/hegemony-or-balance-power-what-wars-ancient-china-teach-us?utm_source=rss_feed Published At 2026-07-17 21:30:05 (2 weeks ago)
Created At 2026-07-17 21:30:23 Updated At 2026-07-17 21:30:23