INTS10001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Non-Aligned Movement, Global Governance, Fashoda Incident
13 Aug 2020
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The wealth of european societies and their technological edge pressured other states to. Emergence of ideologies of scientific racism, nationalism, standard of civilization". Intra-european tensions global in scope - concert must manage these, eg. berlin. 1885 conference carves up africa; fashoda incident 1898 between britain and. Push to modernize (eg. japan post-meiji from 1912 became a colonising power; 19th century relatively peaceful for europe (except for conflicts associated with italian unification (1859) and german unification (1871) End in august 1914 with the outbreak of the first world war. Causes of the war hotly debated - wwi has generated far more scholarly literature on its causes than any other historical conflict. Helpful to distinguish between background conditions and drivers cs. Rapid pace of modernisation - consequence of scientific, political (eg. french) and economic revolutions. Power balancing among the great powers in response to a rising germany. Growing military build up between the five great powers, especially france/russia and.
