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The Failure to Prevent World War I - The Unexpected Armageddon (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Failure to Prevent World War I - The Unexpected Armageddon (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Military Strategy and Operational Art
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World War I represents one of the most studied, yet least
understood, systemic conflicts in modern history. At the time, it
was a major power war that was largely unexpected. This book
refines and expands points made in the author's earlier work on the
failure to prevent World War I. It provides an alternative
viewpoint to the thesis of Christopher Clark, Fritz Fischer, Paul
Kennedy, among others, as to the war's long-term origins. By
starting its analysis with the causes and consequences of the
1870-71 Franco-Prussian War and the German annexation of
Alsace-Lorraine, the study systematically explores the key
geostrategic, political-economic and socio-cultural-ideological
disputes between France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Russia,
Japan, the United States and Great Britain, the nature of their
foreign policy goals, alliance formations, arms rivalries, as well
as the dynamics of the diplomatic process, so as to better explain
the deeper roots of the 'Great War'. The book concludes with a
discussion of the war's relevance and the diplomatic failure to
forge a possible Anglo-German-French alliance, while pointing out
how it took a second world war to realize Victor Hugo's
nineteenth-century vision of a United States of Europe-a vision now
being challenged by financial crisis and Russia's annexation of
Crimea.
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