In an attempt to discover some of the underlying origins of World War I, the eminent diplomat and writer George Kennan focuses on a small sector of offstage eve

An analysis of the Russian-French alliance of 1894 and what went wrong in Europe at the end of the nineteenth century.

'Of the "Great Powers" that dominated Europe from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, Prussia is the only one to have vanished ... Iron Kingdom is not ju

The political interactions of Germany, France and Russia in the late nineteenth century are analyzed in terms of their contributions to the start of World War.