What Thucydides could really teach Trump

The Trump administration’s embrace of coercion, transactional alliance politics and performative displays of strength is often defended as hard-headed realism in an unforgiving international system. Key figures within President Donald Trump’s foreign-policy team have explicitly invoked a stripped-do...

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Main Author:	Tom Waldman
Format:	Default Article
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Environmental sciences Political science Strategic, Defence & Security Studies Athens Coercion Donald Trump Grand strategy Greenland Melos Pericles Restraint Stephen Miller Thirty tyrants Thucydides Venezuela
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/2134/31412405.v1
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