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Article: GREATEST of GREEK WARS; SUPPLEMENTING THUCYDIDES' HISTORY OF CONFLICT.(BOOKS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
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- August 3, 2003
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Byline: Mackubin Thomas Owens, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
It was Alfred North Whitehead who said that all Western philosophy is but a footnote to Plato. The same can be said about the Greek historian Thucydides and the study of international relations. As Robert Gilpin, author of many books on international relations theory, writes in "War and Change in World Politics," "In honesty, one must inquire whether or not twentieth-century students of international relations know anything that Thucydides and his fifth-century B.C. compatriots did not know about the behavior of states."
He concludes that it is hard to find any contemporary issue of ...