The Fraying Bonds of Peace
Economic Origins of the First World War
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2026
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-60234-1 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
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What is the relationship between economic interdependence, war, and peace? William Mulligan reveals the deep connection between international economic relations and great power politics that helps to explain both how the European great powers maintained peace in the era before 1914 and why they went to war.
What is the relationship between economic interdependence, war, and peace? William Mulligan addresses this key question in a major new account of international economic relations and the origins of the First World War. He shows how economic interdependence reshaped power politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, channelling rivalries into trading and financial relations and constraining states from going to war. However, this reshaping of power relations created new asymmetries of power with winners and losers. And as the losers turned towards the use of military force to compensate for their weaknesses and vulnerabilities, they altered the logic of economic interdependence, which now came to serve the militarisation of European politics, rather than act as a constraint on war. This shift in the logic of economic interdependence was a key pre-condition for the outbreak of war in 1914.
What is the relationship between economic interdependence, war, and peace? William Mulligan addresses this key question in a major new account of international economic relations and the origins of the First World War. He shows how economic interdependence reshaped power politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, channelling rivalries into trading and financial relations and constraining states from going to war. However, this reshaping of power relations created new asymmetries of power with winners and losers. And as the losers turned towards the use of military force to compensate for their weaknesses and vulnerabilities, they altered the logic of economic interdependence, which now came to serve the militarisation of European politics, rather than act as a constraint on war. This shift in the logic of economic interdependence was a key pre-condition for the outbreak of war in 1914.
William Mulligan is a Professor of History at University College Dublin. He has written widely on international history, including The Origins of the First World War (2010) and The Great War for Peace (2017).
1. Introduction; 2. Economic interdependence in Europe before 1914; 3. The remaking of power politics; 4. Trade and geopolitics, 1897–1906; 5. Loans and alliances, 1904–1910; 6. Fiscal states, geopolitical competition, and economic interdependence; 7. The second Moroccan crisis and the militarisation of interdependence; 8. The Balkan Wars, 1912–1913; 9. Russia, France, and the militarisation of interdependence, 1912–1914; 10. Preparing for war in an interdependent world; 11. The July crisis; 12. Conclusion.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.5.2026 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 500 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-60234-9 / 1009602349 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-60234-1 / 9781009602341 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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