Too Much For Too Little

Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap? by Graham Allison overstates its case and presents too much infrastructure in proving its point.  You don’t need to read or know about Thucydides to understand that an established great power (in this case, the United States) will feel threatened by an emerging great power (here the PRC).

So, there is too much here for too simple of an idea. This is yet again one of those works that could be explained in a page; there is no need for a full length book on the subject.