The Structural Understanding Of Wwi

Student’s nameInstructor’s nameCourseDateThe Structural Understanding of WWIMore than a hundred years ago, a memorable historical event reversed the entire world order and seized almost half of the world into a whirlpool of military operations. WWI led to the collapse of the most powerful global empires and, as a consequence, to the wave of revolutions and the Great War. Among all the main humanitarian areas like history and theory of international relations, political science represents the study of the nature of transformation and structural features of wars. From this point of view, consideration of causes and consequences of the First World War, which became one of the crucial moments in the history of European civilization, represents special interest. A key role is given to interpretation and the structural understanding of the causes and outcomes. Particularly, the concepts of hegemony and balance of power describe the most important structural characteristics of the system. After all, the issue of war can be deeply complicated even with historical documentation and analysis. The war has started with the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in 1914. Particularly to Austria, the balance of power was under threat and it posed a significant threat. Ferdinand was the heir