Law And The Institutions Of The European Communities

Through the book ‘Europe’s Last Summer’ David Fromkin tackles the issues of pre WWI Europe, and the surrounding political, economic, social, debacles that led paranoid countries to go to arms after nearly a full century of relative peace within the European continent. While Fromkin certainly points his fingers to all the nations of Europe his primary focus lies with Germany and Austria-Hungary. Though he continues to stress throughout much of the book that Kaiser Wilhelm II and Archduke Ferdinand were fervent keepers of the peace within their nations, the fault of the war ultimately could be laid at the feet of their two nations and their constant attempts at war-mongering. He claims the war could have been avoided for the moment, had all the nations of Europe wanted peace, but the two bad eggs of Europe drew them all into an unavoidable general war.

The European Union (EU) is a unique economic and political partnership between 28 different countries. It consists of about half a billion citizens, and its combined economy represents about 20 percent of the world’s total economy (Briney, 2015). Today The European Union works as a single market, with free movement of people, goods and services from one country to another. There is a standard system of laws to be followed, and since 1999 many countries share a single currency called the Euro (Europa.eu, 2015). This essay will explore the background history of the European Union and the benefits and drawbacks of the European Union.

Changes were happening all over Europe between World War I and World War II, and the book Europe in the Era of Two World Wars highlights a lot of them. Volker Berghahn, the author, discusses how violence escalated all across Europe during this time frame. The book digs into the desires and upsets of countries like Germany, Britain, France, and Russia, during war times more than others I have read do. Economies of each country and the escalading violence are the main focuses of the book. In the following review of Berghahn’s work, Europe in the Era of Two World Wars, I will highlight why the author is qualified to write the book, and survey the strengths and weakness of the information he provided.

Even though the two wars took place at different times in history the two wars had a lot of similarities. I don’t mean just in the war the starting of the war and the finishing of the wars were similar. In both wars, imperialism, nationalism, and militarism led to the outbreak of war. Imperialisms is a policy of extending a country’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force. In ww1 Imperialism was a cause because building an empire needs manpower such as an army and a navy to conquer and keep the land that they colonized and governed. Nationalism was a great cause of World War one because of countries being greedy and not negotiating. Nationalism shows you are proud of your country and want it to be the best. A lot of causes all came to together and countries all wanted to be better than each other which causes a lot of tension. Militarism could have cause the war due to the naval and arms race. The main event of Militarism causing World War one was the naval rivalry which was made after 1900. Britain had the most powerful navy in the world. This caused everyone else to want to be better but you can’t. Alliances showed a great dent in World War one. Europe divided into two opposing Alliances the Triple Alliance consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy which was formed in 1882. The Triple Entente included Britain, France and Russia which was formed in 1907.

Europeans struggled to cooperate to govern these two weak, vulnerable countries. This created tension throughout Europe. World War one was pushed by the desire for greater empires and increasing competition. Imperialism is one of the prime causes that lead to World War one.

Promptly after the First World War had ended there were many debates about who or what caused the war. Historians such as Fritz Fischer argued that Germany was the to blame for the entirety of the war but there have been many more ideas of what was the cause of the war and therefore causing peace to fail. The main ideas amongst historians for the underlying causes of the war are the different balance in power due the formation of alliances, imperialism, militarism and also the July Crisis of 1914. This essay will argue that the alliances were the main cause of peace failing as with the constant conflict of interests and increasing tension it made it almost impossible to create peace in Europe in 1914.

Before World War I occurred, friction was building up in Europe and it was only a matter of time before conflicts finally erupted. One of the reasons that WWI was so grand was because the nations did not put limitations on how aggressive or violent war may be. There had never been a war so drastic before, causing Europeans to fight even if they were being demolished. Backing down was thought of as weak and unhonorable. Competition between nations was magnified by Europe’s desire to fight leading to WWI.

WW1 was the result of several factors such as Imperialism, Nationalism and Militarism between World Alliances of that time period.The two sides who ended up facing each other in this war because of those factors were the: Allies - United Kingdom, Russia, France, USA and Italy, while the Central Power included Ottoman Empire, Austro Hungary and Germany. At time in history most European nations already had colonies and as the years went by, the land which was still independent was fought over fiercely. Italy and Germany were new world powers and both countries wanted to expand their boundaries. England was focused on maintaining it’s already diminishing empire while Russia and Austro-Hungary were busy dividing the Balkans through force and politics. Each nation wanted to look and be stronger as a nation. Imperialism - the hunt for more land, lead to Militarism and Nationalism which helped create the war. These three factors gave birth to WW1 and played a big role in the war.

This war, which lasted for four years instead of its intended four months, marks a paradigm shift in the concept of warfare. Benefiting from the Industrial Revolution, this conflict was to shape the following century. Interestingly enough, this clash of super nations was expected to be “The War to End all Wars.” These nations believed that war was inevitable for the prosperity of Europe and the world. However, from a contemporary perspective, this is erroneous. The changing of warfare, the Treaty of Versailles and the reluctance of many nations, made it impossible for

For quite a number of reasons, World War II was largely inevitable. In this text, I will take into consideration some arguments that have been presented in the past in an attempt to demonstrate the inevitability of the Second World War. These arguments range from the creation of the Treaty of Versailles to the conditions imposed on Germany to nationalistic issues. Many historians consider German's invasion into Poland the official commencement date of the Second World War.

Being one of history’s major wars, World War One, formerly known as “The Great War”, provokes the controversial question that leaves historians debating: Was World War One avoidable? With prior tensions, naivety to war, and rivalry for pursuit of power, the conditions present in Europe, in 1914, were all the makings of an inevitable war–World War One. To begin with,

Other powers got involved and caused much instability.Nationalism can also be defined as the desire of independent nations for dominance and prestige. As the powers tried to dominate each other in Europe,some examples include Germany and France's fight over Alsace. This division made peace between both countries impossible.Russia and Austria fought over the Balkans and finally Britain and Germany over their navies and economic power.These European powers under the illusion that what they where doing was nobel and was an act of favour for there country they had so much pride in.Their rivalries may be regarded as one of the causes of the First World

Another institutional basis that caused the Second World War was due to superiority complex between the nations. Nationalism generally refers to the different rights and interest of one country and the belief that one is more superior to the other. During the period before the First World War, there were very strong stands and emotions relating to nationalism as some states felt that they opted for unity between some states while disregarded others. An example of states that did this included Bosnia and Herzegovina which no longer wanted to be part of the then Austria-Hungary but decided to join part of Serbia. In this way, one can, therefore, say that issues relating to nationalism directly led to war between states which later translated to World War 1 as other countries ally to the fighting nations also intervened (Strachan and Hew 25). The wars were further facilitated by the fact that each country wanted to show her dominance over the other in term of military conquest. An example case of this was seen in Germany’s

Many tensions were building up throughout Europe. Nationalism, Militarism, and Imperialism are reasons that led to WWI among others. Imperialism is unequally and forcefully taking over another country which is what many countries were doing before WWI. Europeans started taking over small countries just for the resources and power. Nationalism was developed and it created a dedication and devotion between an individual and there country. Individuals began to have pride of their country along with patriotism. This

There are many different causes that led up to WWI, but there were a handful of root causes that accelerated the development of hostility between nations. One of the main reasons was the shifting of the balance of power. The balance of power between nations is a delicate equilibrium that can be easily thrown off if one nation shows a bit of hostility, or if there is an emergence that threatens the sanctity of this balance. For a power to emerge or change, it directly affects all other nations involved through a butterfly effect of events. In WWI specifically, the unification of Germany threw off all alliances and the control of powers, as it was overwhelming for such a strong power to step up. Structurally and emotionally, this was a dramatic change to the stability of the balance of powers, and such a quick change disrupted the peace between the nations so greatly that WWI occurred. Apart from the breakdown of the balance of powers and emergence of hegemonic threats, other institutional and structural theories can explain the events that caused WWI. Some of these events include social conflicts within the countries, shifting alliances, power rankings, and the struggles to negotiate different resources between countries.