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What is the driving motivation behind a state’s political goals and territorial claims? And how might leaders’ risk tolerance fluctuate? This review article uses Thucydides’ tripartite division of motives—fear, honor, and interest—to organize insights from four recent books. It suggests that contemporary China’s understanding of interest is starkly different from that of previous rising powers—such as Imperial Japan—and that fear consequently operates in a different manner. Because East Asia’s territorial disputes create windows of risk, there is a real danger a crisis could escalate before such windows can be closed (in a moment, perhaps, of “punctuated equilibrium”). Consequently, attempting to understand the varying risk tolerance of China’s leaders is a necessary, albeit only a temporary, solution to the problem of peace in East Asia.

The Scholar and the Ghost: Thucydides, China’s Rise, and Major Power War