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... arms . ' The rising budgets of defence were deplored by hundreds of journalists and politicians and even by Tsar Nicholas of Russia who hoped that the international confer- ence at The Hague in 1899 might limit the expansion of ...
... arms . ' The rising budgets of defence were deplored by hundreds of journalists and politicians and even by Tsar Nicholas of Russia who hoped that the international confer- ence at The Hague in 1899 might limit the expansion of ...
Page 137
... arms races implied that armed threats endangered the peace by fomenting suspicion . It is clear however that international relations had been marked by threats for centuries . Moreover threats - effective threats - were a vital ...
... arms races implied that armed threats endangered the peace by fomenting suspicion . It is clear however that international relations had been marked by threats for centuries . Moreover threats - effective threats - were a vital ...
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... arms race was a vital cause of the war . It is easy to imagine that arms races were the heralds of war but the evidence also suggests that they coincided with very long periods of peace . Between 1870 and 1914 most years were marked by ...
... arms race was a vital cause of the war . It is easy to imagine that arms races were the heralds of war but the evidence also suggests that they coincided with very long periods of peace . Between 1870 and 1914 most years were marked by ...
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