If Thucydides were plopped down in the Middle East or East Asia, he would probably recognize … the situation quite quickly.
The world at the beginning of the twenty-first century is a strange cocktail of continuity and change. Some aspects of international politics have not changed since Thucydides.
Governments now have to share the stage with actors who can use information to enhance their soft power and press governments directly, or indirectly by mobilizing their publics.