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Author | : Tim Hadley |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2015-12-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1498528988 |
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This book challenges current thinking about the outbreak of World War I and the course of German foreign policy since Bismarck’s chancellorship. In 1914, Germany's opening offensives against France were to be accompanied by a simultaneous offensive by her ally, Austria-Hungary, against Russia. The Austrian offensive was intended to hold the Russians until Germany defeated the French—six weeks, no more. Then, the German army would turn east to support the Austrians. The Austrian offensive was a catastrophic failure. After only days of fighting Russia, Germany was obliged to send troops to support Austria lest she capitulate while most of the German army was still in France. The Austrian army’s severe deficiencies were a constant drain on the German effort throughout the war. After the war, German memoirists and historians claimed that the German leadership had been unaware of these deficiencies before the war broke out. These claims have been accepted by historians down to today. The book presents recently re-discovered documentary evidence that the German general staff and Germany’s political leadership had known of the Austrian army’s weaknesses for decades before the war. The book also reveals a new perspective of Bismarck’s diplomacy beginning shortly after he engineered the Dual Alliance between the two countries in 1879. It demonstrates that as early as 1882 Bismarck became aware that the Austrian army was far weaker than assumed when he concluded the alliance. It was primarily his concern about Austria’s weakness that spurred Bismarck’s energetic diplomacy, seeking alliances and understandings with other countries in the region, and which became the main consideration that guided his foreign policy from then on. For if Austria suffered a defeat, Germany would find itself alone between two dangerous powers: France and Russia. The consequences of his policies resulted in peace down to his departure in 1890. His successors, for a variety of reasons addressed in the book, were not as careful, ignored Austria’s weaknesses despite the warnings of the military attachés, and permitted Austria to become involved in a war. The result was tragically foreseeable.
Author | : Alan S. Alexandroff |
Publisher | : SAGE Publications, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1981-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Download The Logic of Diplomacy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Alexandroff explains how diplomacy is at the heart of patterns of foreign policy behaviour. Using the interactions of the European Great Powers between 1870 and 1890 as an example, he critically examines currently prevalent theories of international behaviour and proposes the logic of diplomacy as a better explanation of this behaviour. '...one of the book's strengths is that it encompasses the whole spectrum of diplomatic behavior from cooperation to conflict, rather than the more frequent focus simply on extremes such as alliances or military war. The work also does an excellent job at placing its approach in the context of the existing macro-level quantitative international relations projects.' -- The American Political
Author | : Frederick Lewis Schuman |
Publisher | : New York : H. Fertig |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download War and Diplomacy in the French Republic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Richard Bosworth |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 718 |
Release | : 2017-11-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108406406 |
Download The Cambridge History of the Second World War: Volume 2, Politics and Ideology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
War is often described as an extension of politics by violent means. With contributions from twenty-eight eminent historians, Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the Second World War examines the relationship between ideology and politics in the war's origins, dynamics and consequences. Part I examines the ideologies of the combatants and shows how the war can be understood as a struggle of words, ideas and values with the rival powers expressing divergent claims to justice and controlling news from the front in order to sustain moral and influence international opinion. Part II looks at politics from the perspective of pre-war and wartime diplomacy as well as examining the way in which neutrals were treated and behaved. The volume concludes by assessing the impact of states, politics and ideology on the fate of individuals as occupied and liberated peoples, collaborators and resistors, and as British and French colonial subjects.
Author | : Carl von Clausewitz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Military art and science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Peter R. Mansoor |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2016-02-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107136024 |
Download Grand Strategy and Military Alliances Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A broad-ranging study of the relationship between alliances and the conduct of grand strategy, examined through historical case studies.
Author | : Patricia A. Weitsman |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780804748667 |
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Military alliances drive international politics. They embody conflict and cooperation among states and shape the international political landscape. Despite the profound effect alliances have on the course of international politics, many gaps remain in our understanding of their formation, continuance, and cohesion. In this book, Patricia Weitsman introduces a comprehensive theory that unifies current ideas about alliances and examines the relationship between threat and alliance politics under conditions of both war and peace. Examining military alliances before and during World War I, Weitsman provides a new interpretation of the politics of the great powers of this period. She reveals that states frequently form alliances to keep peace among the allied countries, not simply to counter shared external threats. Though alliances may be perceived by others to present a unified and threatening front, countries often face significant threats from within their own alliances. It is this paradox that underscores Weitsman's theory: although alliances are frequently forged to sustain peace, they may, in fact, increase the prospects of war.
Author | : Michael Howard |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2007-01-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199205590 |
Download The First World War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This Very Short Introduction provides a concise and insightful history of the Great War--from the state of Europe in 1914, to the role of the US, the collapse of Russia, and the eventual surrender of the Central Powers. Examining how and why the war was fought, as well as the historical controversies that still surround the war, Michael Howard also looks at how peace was ultimately made, and describes the potent legacy of resentment left to Germany.
Author | : Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2018-09-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1501725076 |
Download Rising Titans, Falling Giants Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
As a rising great power flexes its muscles on the political-military scene it must examine how to manage its relationships with states suffering from decline; and it has to do so in a careful and strategic manner. In Rising Titans, Falling Giants Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson focuses on the policies that rising states adopt toward their declining competitors in response to declining states’ policies, and what that means for the relationship between the two. Rising Titans, Falling Giants integrates disparate approaches to realism into a single theoretical framework, provides new insight into the sources of cooperation and competition in international relations, and offers a new empirical treatment of great power politics at the start and end of the Cold War. Shifrinson challenges the existing historical interpretations of diplomatic history, particularly in terms of the United States-China relationship. Whereas many analysts argue that these two nations are on a collision course, Shifrinson declares instead that rising states often avoid antagonizing those in decline, and highlights episodes that suggest the US-China relationship may prove to be far less conflict-prone than we might expect.
Author | : Jan Vermeiren |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 459 |
Release | : 2016-07-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316586278 |
Download The First World War and German National Identity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The First World War and German National Identity is an original and carefully researched study of the coalition between Imperial Germany and Austria-Hungary during the First World War. Focusing on the attitudes taken by governmental circles, politically active groups, intellectuals, and the broader public towards the German-speaking population in the Habsburg Monarchy, Jan Vermeiren explores how the war challenged established notions of German national identity and history. In this context, he also sheds new light on key issues in the military and the diplomatic relationship between Berlin and Vienna, re-examining the German war aims debate and presenting many new insights into German-Hungarian and German-Slav relations in the period. The book is a major contribution to German and Central European history and will be of great interest to scholars of the First World War and the complex relationship between war and society.