text: Opinion | In Myanmar, Tatmadaw and Arakan Army Caught in Thucydides' Trap - Thar Le Zwa သာလီစြ - Arakan Monitor
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  Opinion | In Myanmar, Tatmadaw and Arakan Army Caught in Thucydides' Trap
  April 20, 2020 Articles, Opinion,
  When an established power feels threatened by a new rising power, war is almost inevitably the result. This phenomenon has been described as "Thucydides' Trap".
  The term was coined in 2012 by Harvard professor Graham Allison, who used it in reference to the Peloponnesian War between Sparta and Athens in ancient Greece, which was chronicled by historian Thucydides. Thucydides observed that the war was caused by the rise of Athenian power and the fear this caused in Sparta. He concluded that the rise of Athens and the fear that this instilled in Sparta made the war inevitable.
  Likewise, the Rakhine war between Myanmar's dominant power, the Tatmadaw, and a rising power, the AA, has already produced tens of thousands of displaced persons, taken many innocent people's lives and devastated many villages.
  Being caught between the Tatmadaw and AA in Thucydides' Trap is the tragic fate that has ultimately resulted in misery for the people of Rakhine and Chin states.
  https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/guest-column/myanmar-tatmadaw-arakan-army-caught-thucydides-trap.html