Abstract

LOBO-FERNANDES, Luís. The China’s expansion and the construction of a problematic. Relações Internacionais [online]. 2021, n.71, pp.13-29.  Epub Sep 30, 2021. ISSN 1645-9199.  https://doi.org/10.23906/ri2021.71a02.

This article attempts to build a rational case about China’s burgeoning expansion revisiting the interrelated questions of the long cycles, hegemonic transitions and the so-called “Thucydides’s trap” among other analytical dimensions, drawing mainly upon some of the most important theoretical propositions from Thucydides, Kautilya, Organski, Modelski, Gilpin, and G. Allison. The conclusion points to the idea that the current international system already reveals a new phase of strategic containment.

Keywords : China; United States; Europe; strategic containment.

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