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Taiwan: Melos or Pylos?

By:

HOLMES James R

Contributor(s):

YOSHIHARA Toshi

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: 2005Subject(s):

In: Naval War College Review Vol 58 No 3, Summer 2005, pp.43-61Summary: Argues that a variety of factors that have come together in 2004 and 2005 have sharply increased the risk of war in the Taiwan Strait. Recommends that the leaderships of China, Taiwan and the USA could benefit from a close study of the Peloponnesian Wars of the fourth century BC in which a small island state was coveted by a powerful neighbour.

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Argues that a variety of factors that have come together in 2004 and 2005 have sharply increased the risk of war in the Taiwan Strait. Recommends that the leaderships of China, Taiwan and the USA could benefit from a close study of the Peloponnesian Wars of the fourth century BC in which a small island state was coveted by a powerful neighbour.

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