The First World War & the Ukraine Crisis: 1914 – 2014

This article was first published in New View magazine Issue 71  April-June 2014 What is the connection between the world catastrophe that broke out in 1914  and the current crisis in Ukraine, a hundred years later? To attempt to answer this question we can start by considering the relationship between three large cultural groups of people, those in southern, northern and eastern Europe: the...
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Belgian Neutrality & the British Decision for War in 1914

  This lecture was given in Brussels on April 28th 2014 at the Europe Brussels Liaison Office www.blbe.be as part of the Beyond the 1914-1918 Centenary series of lectures in Brussels to mark the Centenary of the First World...
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