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ConflictSpace of cataclysm: the international system and the spread of war 1914-1917 / Vasquez, John A; Diehl, Paul F; Flint, Colin; Scheffran, Jurgen

Diehl, Paul F	Journal Article
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2011.

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Social network analysis is used to show that underlying systemic structure made war more likely to spread in 1914 than earlier in the century. The changing network density of three diffusion processes is seen as crucial-alliances, interstate rivalries, and territorial disputes. The findings show that the density of each of these factors increased in the system in varying degrees from 1900 to the end of 1913. How the three diffusion processes interacted with contiguity to make the local war between Austria-Hungary and Serbia spread to become a world war is explained both theoretically and historically.

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Alliances ; Territorial Disputes ; Serbia ; Social Network Analysis ; Spread of War ; 1914-1917 ;
Interstate Rivalries ; Austria - Hungary War

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Initiation and spread of the first world war: interdependent decisions / Levy, Jack S

Levy, Jack S	Journal Article
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2011.

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The ConflictSpace framework begins with the assumption that the factors leading a war to spread are different from the factors leading to the initiation of war. I argue that the presumed analytic separation of the initiation and spread of war is misleading because leaders' expectations of how a war might spread have a significant effect on their decisions to initiate war. I demonstrate this for the July 1914 crisis, and in the process I question Vasquez et al.'s argument that the key to the outbreak of the war lies in the Austro-Serbian relationship. I end by suggesting that the impact of the anticipated spread of war on the initiation of war probably varies across cases and constitutes an empirical question to investigate.

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First World War ; Spread of War ; Austro - Serbian Relationship ; World War I

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