David Kaiser looks at four hundred years of modern European
history to find the political causes of general war in four
distinct periods (1559-1659, 1661-1713, 1792-1815, and 1914-1945).
He shows how war became a natural function of politics, a logical
consequence of contemporary political behavior. Rather than
fighting simply to expand, states in each war fought for specific
political and economic reasons. The book illustrates the
extraordinary power of politics and war in modern Western
civilization, if not in history as a whole.
In a provocative and original new preface and chapter, Kaiser
shows which aspects of four past areas of conflict do, and do not,
seem relevant to the immediate future, and he sketches out some new
possibilities for Europe.
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