The Great War Analogy and the Sino-American Security Dilemma: Foreboding or Fallacious?
Journal: Asian perspective
Year: 2020

Drawing on the analogical lessons of the Great War, this article uses applied history to analyze how the four parallels discerned can help us make sense of contemporary Sino-American rivalry. The first section seeks to explain how deliberate reciprocal moves forged the interconnected causal chain that steered Europe into the abyss, and how that translates into the strategic complex in East Asia today. Contrasting the fallacious notion of inevitability, the following section explores what the div