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CONFLICTING RIGHTS AND THE OUTBREAK OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 April 2002

Leo Katz
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania Law School

Abstract

Austria was no more wrong in opposing our claims than we were in making them.

—Bismarck, on the Austro-Prussian War of 1866.ROBERT K. MASSIE, DREADNOUGHT 59 (Random House 1991).

Is it possible for good men to come to blows without anyone being to blame? And was World War I a real-life realization of that possibility? Those are the two questions this essay means to pursue.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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