The Fraying Bonds of Peace

Economic Origins of the First World War

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-06-04
Mått:162 x 234 x 30 mm
Vikt:865 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:456
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009602341

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William Mulligan is 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 (2014).

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'Mulligan's important book returns to the question of the relationship between economics and war first popularized by Norman Angell. A must-read for those interested in the causes of the First World War, it explains how Europe's trade and financial relations came to serve the aims of war not peace before 1914.' Patricia Clavin, author of Securing the World Economy: The Reinvention of the League of Nations, 1920–1946

Innehållsförteckning

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.