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These five essays from the prestigious journal International Security analyze the outbreak of the First World War from the standpoint of power politics and military strategy. 鈥淭he disaster of 1914 continues to haunt the contemporary security debate,鈥� writes Steven E. Miller in his introduction. 鈥淚n the nuclear age, the images that remain from the summer of 1914鈥攖he escalation from an isolated event in a far corner of Europe to a global war, the apparent loss of control of the situation by key decision-makers, the crowding out of diplomacy by military exigencies, the awful, protracted, often senseless slaughter on the battlefield鈥攔aise troubling doubts about our ability to forever conduct affairs of state safely in an international environment plagued by the ever-present risk of thermonuclear war.鈥�

The book includes Paul Kennedy’s 鈥淭he First World War and the International Power System,鈥� Michael Howard’s 鈥淢en Against Fire: Expectations of War in 1914,鈥� Stephen Van Evera’s 鈥淭he Cult of the Offensive and the Origins of the First World War,鈥� Jack Snyder’s 鈥淐ivil-Military Relations and the Cult of the Offensive, 1914 and 1984,鈥� and Richard Ned Lebow’s 鈥淲indows of Opportunity: Do States Jump Through Them?鈥�