When a new rising power seeks to surpass an established dominant power and the dominant power resists the new power, instability ensues and there is a higher possibility of war. This is known as ______.
a. prisoner’s dilemma
b. Thucydides’s trap
c. the zero-sum game
d. The War Game Scenario
b. Thucydides’s trap
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