POL208Y5 Lecture Notes - Archduke Franz Ferdinand Of Austria, Power Transition Theory, July Crisis
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Nov. 27 case study: the july crisis: backgrounder. Wwi is argued to be an accident. Sequence of events: june 28, 1914: archduke franz ferdinand assassinated in sarajevo, july 28: austria-hungary declares war on serbia, third image explanations, multipolarity neo-realism (waltz) Entanglements, more likely to misjudge = result in conflict: rising powers power transition theory: shifting centers of power. Germany wanted more international prestige and be hegemony of. Shift of rising german power vis-a-vis britain explains outbreak of. Others argue that it is actually russia: was helping france in terms of building military capabilities. Russia was growing in strength and if germany didn"t act, it would be encircled: missing institutions neo-liberal institutionalism. Post war = creates institutions with purpose of preventing conflict . League of nations: wendt"s constructivism: hobbesian culture. Culture of killed or be killed => this helped contribute to possibility og war being thinkable and acceptable: dyadic approaches, offense-defense balance.
