{"id":528,"date":"2025-02-17T10:36:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T10:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/internationalhistory20c\/?post_type=content&p=528"},"modified":"2025-02-17T10:46:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T10:46:25","slug":"chapter-1-great-power-rivalry-and-the-world-war-1900-17","status":"publish","type":"content","link":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/internationalhistory20c\/students\/chapter-1-great-power-rivalry-and-the-world-war-1900-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 1: Great Power rivalry and the World War, 1900\u201317"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Chapter 1: Great Power rivalry and the World War, 1900\u201317<\/h1>\n\n\n

Chapter one introduces the concept of power in states system and the nature of great power politics in international politics. It analyses the decline of the Concert of Europe and the long peace of the nineteenth century as a precursor to the cataclysms of the twentieth century. Chapter one examines the long-term causes of the First World War, including the rise of nationalism, the new imperialism and arms races and war planning. The chapter connects these long-term causes to the immediate decisions for war in the summer of 1914. It also addresses the question of why, despite the plans and expectations of a short war and decisive victories, the war continued for years after it started.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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