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Author profile: Ilias Kouskouvelis

Ilias Kouskouvelis is Professor of International Relations at the University of Macedonia, Greece, and holder of the ‘Thucydides HNDGS Chair in Strategic Studies’. He is the author of the forthcoming book Thucydides on Choice and Decision Making: Why War Is Not Inevitable (2018). Twitter: @kouskouvelis

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The Thucydides Trap: A Distorted Compass

Ilias Kouskouvelis • Nov 5 2017 • Articles

Those who seek authority in Thucydides’ writings should proceed with the utmost caution or they may find themselves distorting his ideas like Graham Allison has.

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The Fallacies of the Cyprus “Problem”

Ilias Kouskouvelis • Aug 12 2017 • Articles

If anyone wants genuinely to find a solution to the Cyprus “problem”, they should start where all negotiations should have had started since 1974: Turkey.

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The US, China and the Real Thucydides Trap

Ilias Kouskouvelis • Jul 16 2017 • Articles

War is avoidable. The real ‘Thucydides Trap’ is not that of competition and fear. The answer lies in Thucydides’ multi-causal thinking.

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