INR 2002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Triple Alliance (1882), Austria-Hungary, Hegemony
1 Feb 2017
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After the napoleonic war, europe was devastated but britain arose as a hegemonic power: hegemon economic, military, diplomatic super-superpower. Polarity/balancing: once 1 or 2 countries create an alliance/treaty, then another set of countries will do the same. As lo(cid:374)g as (cid:374)o o(cid:374)e (cid:272)ou(cid:374)try (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)es (cid:373)ore powerful, we"re fi(cid:374)e. Dual alliance 1879: germany and austria-hungary against russian aggression, italy joins and it becomes the triple alliance (1882) Franco russian alliance 1894: britain joins, 1907. Serbia, romania, bulgaria, greece come into existence due to resistance to. World war i: archduke francis ferdinand. On his way to sarajevo for a parade in his honor: gavril princip and his men line the parade route and are going to assassinate the archduke. The first gre(cid:374)ade does(cid:374)"t kill hi(cid:373) a(cid:374)d he is rushed off. When he leaves the bar, he sees the archduke and kills him: important to know that serbia has an alliance with russia, so if austria-hungary attacks serbia, russia may attack austria-
