POL 1025 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: July Crisis, Security Dilemma, Unification Of Germany
Document Summary
The origins of world war i (1914-1919: why world war i, the importance of wwi, the war"s legacy: redrawing the map of europe, wwi and enduring questions. A. the july crisis (for details, see slide posted online: the international system, background: the german problem, and the rise and fall of the bismarckian system. The rise and fall of the bismarckian system: complex system of alliances allays fears of germany"s neighbors & rivals, bismarck"s successors were less adept, the age of nationalism, anarchy, the balance of power, and the security dilemma. Anarchy & multipolarity uncertainty incentives to pursue a hard-nosed policy. Blame: nobody tragic consequence of the structure of the international system. Blame: everybody all undertook unnecessarily risky gambles: shifting power, wwi as revisionist war (rising german power, declining british power) Blame: german greed: wwi as preventive war (rising russian power, declining german power)
