This week marks the centennial of the outbreak of World War I. WorldPost contributors such as Walter Russell Mead and Artyom Lukin have asked whether events in 2014 parallel those of 1914.
Here, seven scholars from the Belfer Center at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government offer the historical lessons they see. – “Just because war would be folly and self-defeating does not mean that it cannot happen. None of the leaders of Europe in 1914 would have chosen the war they caused — and in the end all lost. By 1918, the Kaiser had been dismissed, the Austro-Hungarian Empire …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
