Beyond the Thucydides Trap
A Life-Coherent Civilizational Framework for Great-Power Rivalry, Strategic Stability, and Planetary Repair | From Fear-Based Order to Relational Security in the U.S.–China CenturyBy Dr Bichara Sahely
Length2h 2m
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Beyond the Thucydides Trap reframes the U.S.–China rivalry as more than a contest between a rising and an established power. It argues that the deeper danger is a life-blind security paradigm in which nations seek safety through the insecurity of others. Using Taiwan, technology, energy, deterrence, strategic stability, and planetary crisis as stress tests, the paper asks what must be discerned and repaired before fear becomes fate. It proposes a life-coherent framework for strategic stability grounded in crisis non-escalation, Taiwan life-protection, civil commons resilience, technology under life-protective constraint, and planetary repair diplomacy. Its central claim is that the highest realism is no longer domination, but viability: security remains legitimate only when it remains answerable to life.
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GenrePolitics and Government
Length2 hrs 2 mins
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Publish dateMay 16, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1
27Pillar Two: Taiwan Life-Protection
2Overview for Listeners
28Pillar Three: Civil Commons Resilience
3Preface
29Pillar Four: Technology Under Life-Protective Constraint
4Acknowledgements
30Pillar Five: Planetary Repair Diplomacy
51. Introduction. A Warning at the Edge of History
317. From Strategic Realism to Life-Coherent Realism
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62. The Thucydides Trap as Diagnosis, Not Destiny
328. A Life-Coherent Architecture for Great-Power Repair
73. The Deeper Trap: Life-Blind Security
33The Design Principle: Security Must Remain Answerable to Life
84. The Civilizational Stress Test
34The Architecture of Repair
9Constraint
35From Guardrails to Regenerative Regulation
10Margin
36The Practical Test
11State
379. Institutional Pathways for Life-Coherent Repair
12Disturbance
38Track-One Diplomatic Repair
13Perception
39Military-to-Military Risk Reduction
14Regulation
40Track-Two and Track-1.5 Civilizational Dialogue
15Options
41Regional Life-Protection Forums
165. Necessary Distinctions for Discernment
42Civil Commons Compacts
17Warning Is Not Destiny
43Technology Governance Pathways
18Strategic Stability Is Not Peace
44Planetary Repair Benchmarks
19Peer Recognition Is Not Permission for Domination
45Public Narrative Repair
20Taiwan Is Not a Trigger; Taiwan Is a Living Society
46From Institution to Practice
21Interdependence Is Not Life-Coherent When It Becomes Hostage-Dependence
4710. Conclusion
22Deterrence May Prevent War, but It Cannot Heal Fear
48From Trap to Metanoia
23Technology Supremacy Is Not Civilizational Progress
49A Final Listener’s Guide
24National Interest Is Not Ultimate
50Author Bio
256. What Must Be Repaired. Toward Life-Coherent Strategic Stability
51Note on the Referenced Academic Edition
26Pillar One: Crisis Non-Escalation
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