PLSC 27600 Chapter Notes - Chapter Geiss: Preventive War, Scale-Invariant Feature Transform, World War I

• School: University of Chicago
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PLSC 27600
• Professor: Mearsheimer John

Document Summary

Geiss: after wwi, there was a huge propaganda effort to sift blame away from selves, general thought was that they hadn"t been the cause, fritz fischer sorted through historical documents and challenged view of german non culpability. Proved that germany was not only willing to risk war, but pushed for it: against encriclement (the notion that germany was surrounded by russia, france, etc and had to protect itself). Civilian-military relationship: civilian leaders aren"t informed enough to know that it"s a defense-dominated world, military leaders aren"t telling them that b/c they want the war (make selves more necessary and relevent)