POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Austria-Hungary, Barbed Wire, The Great Game
15 Dec 2019
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Ir theory and wwi: wwwi was a war nobody wanted: bloodiest war up until that point, because of alliance patterns, all of europe got pulled in: one of the most studied wars in ir. One of the key reasons why so many countries were sucked into the war: multipolar world system. More than two great powers competing against each other for supremacy. Italy declined to join war because the alliance attacked first (not defensive) italians in a defense pact: ottoman empire (turkey) joined in 1915 on the side of germany in particular. Triple entente (1907-1918: russia, france , united kingdom (plus can, aus, nz, balanced the triple alliance, france allied with russia to balance vs. germany collective security. War: uk allied with russia to end great game rivalry in central asia. Eliminating a potential source of threat for british: uk and france allied to end tensions over colonies, balance against germany add this.
