'the monarchy wanted to overthrow the status quo internationally in order to preserve it at home'
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'In the two years before the July Crisis, Germany's leaders appear to have been gripped by a mood of desperation... Would Bathmann-Hollweg have to conquer Europe in order to rule Germany?'
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'a fateful meshing of 'aggressive German Weltpolitik' with an even more aggressive, irresponsible 'Habsburg Balkanpolitik'.'
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'the Habsburg leaders desperately wanted to shape their future, rather than let events destroy them.'
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'[the manner in which Austro-Hungarians] wished for and decided on war against their small neighbour made them guilty of providing the opportunity that the German military were seeking the wage the preventative war they had... [wanted] for years.'
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'Austria-Hungary bears the responsibility for planning a local third Balkan war... responsibility for the escalation of the conflict into a European war ... lies in Berlin.'
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'They felt encircled not merely by the Triple Entente, but also by the forces of change... The diplomatic isolation of Germany which started in 1904 had worsened... generals could only think of further rearmaments expenditure as a remedy.'
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'Of course they would have preferred to get what they wanted without war.'
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'the German plan to unleash a continental war... was fully realised. Only the constellation of forces against the Central powers was unexpected.'
