War Risks in Asia - Deciphering 1914

Author(s): Jonas Grätz, Michael Haas, Prem Mahadevan, Martin Zapfe
Editor(s): Martin Zapfe
Series: CSS Policy Perspectives
Volume: 2
Issue: 3
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2014

100 years after those fateful bullets at Sarajevo, the metaphor of '1914' is routinely used to depict war risks in East Asia. However, tempting as it is, this necessarily falls short without a clarification of what is meant by '1914'. Only then can the relevance of the analogy in preventing escalation be meaningfully discussed.

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