Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? by Graham AllisonMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
This is pretty interesting. Looking at sociological, economic, historical and political patterns that join the threads between minor unconnected events and paint the larger picture that's been there under the surface, identifying patterns of history and using them to predict probabilities into future events... there's something almost Hari Seldonian about the concept.
I love the term 'Applied History'. History is so much more than a collection of dead facts - it's a living, breathing story that's still going on, threading into the future, the facts of yesterday and the feel of today, connecting into a forecast of tomorrow.
Brilliant read if you're even slightly interested in history and current events at a macro scale.
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