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5th-century BC Athenian historian and general
—rooted in , and 20th‑century thinkers like —views international politics as driven by states’ pursuit of power and a pessimistic reading of human nature, and it remains a live interpretive lens for m...
If given one day to time‑travel into ancient Greece, the most revealing single moment would be Athens in the mid‑5th century BCE during the “Golden Age” of Pericles—around the 450s–430s BCE—because it...
Comparing leaders across history requires separating what they say from what they do: rhetorically similar platforms can coexist with widely different policy outcomes, and conversely similar policy ou...