World war1 (10 pts for the person who answers right)?

Question

What role did geography play in the out break of world war 1?

Answer 1

States pursue defensive expansion because they feel less secure. When conquest is easy states are more expansionist, feeling that their present borders are less defensible and resisting others’ expansion more fiercely. Defensive expansion and strong resistance to expansion stem from the same problem: resources are more cumulative when conquest is easy. States therefore compete harder to control any assets that confer power seeking wider spheres for themselves while fiercely resisting others’ efforts to expand. Thus, when offense dominates states are cursed with aggressive neighbors.

The Russians felt that the prospect of war was already in motion and mobilized against Austria for various reasons, including the geographic one above.

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Answer 2

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