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Mommsen's article had as aim to eliminate as a causal explanation German imperialistic aims and the argumentation is convincing in that respect. Regarding Mayer, he clearly attributed a large causal role to domestic policies within the Great Powers and presents compelling evidence to that effect. Ultimately, these explanatory models do not present a clear view as to the cause of the war, as much as they elaborate on individual factors believed to have contributed to its start. The complex European problems of 1914 make it quite difficult to discern a clear view as to what ignited WWI. Historians have thus been forced to work by elimination of improbable causes and by researching bit by bit the various socio/political/economic/cultural aspects of early 20th C. Europe in order to complete the larger, explanatory puzzle. WWI, its arrival and devastating effects, truly was a mind boggling Gordian Knot, for the events shattered all positive beliefs and hopes of the Western Civiliz!ation. Joll's work is thus an efficient multi spectral analysis. The additional explanatory models, although they are sometimes contradictory, complement each other in providing the future historian, and any reader, with an answer as to what caused WWI. Wh
At stake, again was the preservation of its empire. In 1914 the threat was no longer coming from Russia or Fra!nce, but from Germany. Thirdly, Germany, the youngest Great Power, was going through an economic "accelerated growth" upon a socio-political structure unable to keep up. The arms race, nationalism, strategic alliances, economic rivalries were in fact long term subservient effects of Imperialism. Imperialism is, again, the geographical, political, economical and cultural expansion of one's state or commonwealth's influence over another state, regardless of its current stage of devel!opment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**1) Grant Michale, Caesar Follett, 1975, Pg 230. A war in 1914 might have been prevented; a World War could not. The very rapid spread of the war from a continental scale to a global one is an indication of the true nature of the clash: neighboring empires had ran out of expanding space. After 1905 it had to recover its Imperial prestige and prevent defeats that could lead to a loss of glory and possible emergence of regional nationalism and territorial disintegration . By the time civilians were rejoicing in the capitals, the war had already started, as orders had been issued days before and the troops were already proceeding towards their initial objectives. The reality was that all geographical areas that co!uld be colonized or incorporated in spheres of influence, such as Africa, China and Latin America, had been fully partitioned. It nevertheless remained the same, except that, in 1890, it entered a new phase: displacement. The French wanted to resist the Germans by allying themselves with Britain and Russia. 1890 is the starting point for displacement: to expand further, an empire must displace another physically. It is the last stage before armed conflict, and it has always been characterized by an increase in alliances, by a weapons race, by national indoctrination and by a diversion of attention from domestic problems toward foreign factors.
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