1918: Endgame

Mick, Christoph

doi:10.1017/cho9780511675669.009

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“…The one historian to engage this question directly is Christopher Mick, who contributed the chapter on victory to The Cambridge History of The First World War. 101 He dismisses the supposed success of democracies as an ideological claim that cannot be substantiated on the basis of the empirical record. Without Russia, he insists, the allies would have lost.…”

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What can International Relations Theory learn from the origins of World War I?

Lebow

2014

International Relations

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World War I is a foundational or critical case for theories of international relations that address the causes of war. They include balance of power, deterrence, power transition theory, and rationalist models of decision making. Recent historical work on the underlying and immediate causes of World War I raises serious problems for all these approaches. Among other things, they highlight the importance of context, how it is understood by leaders, their motives and assumptions, and their tendency to exaggerate the constraints acting on them, the freedom of other actors, and their ability to predict events and control risks.

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confidence: 99%