UID:
almafu_9960117835502883
Format:
1 online resource (xviii, 305 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-139-90511-2
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1-139-89921-X
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1-107-33699-6
Content:
The First World War had profound consequences both for the evolution of the international system and for domestic political systems. How and why did the war start? Offering a unique interdisciplinary perspective, this volume brings together a distinguished group of diplomatic historians and international relations scholars to debate the causes of the war. Organized around several theoretically based questions, it shows how power, alliances, historical rivalries, militarism, nationalism, public opinion, internal politics, and powerful personalities shaped decision-making in each of the major countries in the lead up to war. The emphasis on the interplay of theory and history is a significant contribution to the dialogue between historians and political scientists, and will contribute to a better understanding of the war in both disciplines.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Part I. Overview of debates about the causes of the First World War -- Introduction: historians, political scientists, and the causes of the First World War / Jack S. Levy and John A. Vasquez -- July 1914 revisited and revised: the erosion of the German paradigm / Samuel R. Williamson -- Part II. Structure and agency -- Strategic rivalries and complex causality in 1914 / Karen Rasler and William R. Thompson -- "A formidable factor in European politics": views of Russia in 1914 / T.G. Otte -- Part II. The question of preventive war -- Restraints on preventive war before 1914 / William Mulligan -- The sources of preventive logic in German decision-making in 1914 / Jack S. Levy -- IR theory and the three great puzzles of the great war / Dale C. Copeland -- Was the First World War a preventive war? Concepts, criteria, and evidence / John A. Vasquez -- Part IV. The role of the other powers -- War accepted but unsought: Russia's growing militancy and the July Crisis, 1914 / Ronald Park Bobroff -- France's unreadiness for war in 1914 and its implications for French decision making in the July Crisis / John Keiger.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-61602-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-04245-3
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107336995
