Democracy and Imperialism

500-700 Chicago style

Read Mitylenian Debate (Thucydides, Book 3, chapters 36-50) and Melian Dialogue (Thucydides, Book 5, chapters 84-116) as well as The West in Question 4 (Section 3). What happens when a democracy tries to be an imperial power? Are there compromises to be made in how a democracy treats others?

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