'The ancient city-states Thucydides describes resemble the middle powers of the 21st century'
- Posted on February 9, 2026
- By Le Monde
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'The ancient city-states Thucydides describes resemble the middle powers of the 21st century'
OP-ED. Today's middle powers are reshaping their alliances to confront Donald Trump's United States, much as the Sicilian city-states did against imperialist Athens in the 5th century BCE, historian Robert Zaretsky argues.
