political theory

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Trump also responded to a comment by Xi referring to the "Thucydides Trap," a political theory that war becomes more likely when a rising new power competes with an established great power.

From Barron's • May 14, 2026

An LLM is trained on the sum of human written knowledge: philosophy, history, science, political theory.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

I base this not on any grand political theory but on how many times I stood next to members of Congress at urinals at DCA during my years living in D.C.

From Slate • Nov. 7, 2025

Carl Schmitt, a German legal scholar, was a supporter of the Nazi Party who sought to justify Hitler's policies in his writings on legal and political theory.

From BBC • May 30, 2025

General political science—mainly political theory, with some comparative government.

From College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Klapper, Paul