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Thucydides in Panama: Power vs. Diplomacy in the Time of Trump
Image Source: PBS News. One of the founding passages in international relations is the Melian Dialogue in Thucydides’s Peloponnesian Wars. It’s a conversation between Athens, a strong military power at the time, and the island of Melos, a small and weak …