international struggle I represents some of the most studied, but least understood, systemic conflicts in smooth heritage. on the time, it used to be an important strength struggle that was once principally unforeseen. This ebook refines and expands issues made within the author’s prior paintings at the failure to avoid global warfare I. It presents another standpoint to the thesis of Christopher Clark, Fritz Fischer, Paul Kennedy, between others, as to the war's long term origins. by means of beginning its research with the explanations and outcomes of the 1870-71 Franco-Prussian struggle and the German annexation of Alsace-Lorraine, the examine systematically explores the major geostrategic, political-economic and socio-cultural-ideological disputes among France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Russia, Japan, the U.S. and nice Britain, the character in their overseas coverage objectives, alliance formations, palms rivalries, in addition to the dynamics of the diplomatic approach, which will greater clarify the deeper roots of the 'Great War'. The publication concludes with a dialogue of the war's relevance and the diplomatic failure to forge a potential Anglo-German-French alliance, whereas mentioning the way it took a moment international battle to achieve Victor Hugo’s nineteenth-century imaginative and prescient of a usa of Europe-a imaginative and prescient now being challenged by means of monetary obstacle and Russia's annexation of Crimea.