This volume brings together leading historians and international relations scholars to debate the causes of the First World War.

Stevenson provides a synthesis of the historical research into why, in 1914, a Balkan conflict escalated into a general European war, setting events within the

The First World War has been described as the "primordial catastrophe of the twentieth century." Arguably, Italian Fascism, German National Socialism and Soviet

By training his eye on the ways that people outside the halls of power reacted to the rapid onset and escalation of the fighting in 1914, Neiberg dispels the no