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Essay on World War I
Until the 19th Century the world was ruled by the principle of “Might is Right”. The current century, popularized and practiced “majority is authority” under the designation of democracy. This is how the principle of “might” yielded place to the principle of “majority”.For more than three hundred years, the drama of modern history has turned on the rise and fall of great powers. In the multi-polar era, twelve great powers appeared on the scene at one time or another.
It has often been asked that why and for what cause, almost the whole world indulged itself in such a bloody war. The answer is not very simple and clear cut. There were several causes of World War I. All the nations although used same political means but ends for which these means applied were different. For example, the goal of the Soviets was the proliferation of communism and Marxist Revolution, the goal of Fascists was national power and imperialism, and the goal of Nazi was the racial supremacy of German people. For the British and the French, the goal was the maintenance of their colonial structure and their economic domination and for the United States it was the spreading of their ideology and culture to the whole world (Clark, 1970). All of these competing collectivisms were bound to clash in the struggle of ideological supremacy.
It has often been said that the economic interdependence lowers the chances of war by increasing the value of trading. But this is not true in the case of World War I; the European powers had reached unprecedented levels of trade during that period, yet their interdependence on trading did not prevent them from going to war.Different Scholars have different opinions about why states fight with each other. Some Scholars thought that peace prevails if a state established its supremacy......
