Insight on the News, December 10th, 2001
With each passing day, the political landscape across the globe looks increasingly like August 1914. Then, it took only the assassination of an Austrian archduke by a Bosnian-Serb nationalist to ignite the First World War.
The second decade of the century was a time of fear and deep suspicion, of secret alliances and dark conspiracies. Militarism was on the rise and great-power rivalries dominated world politics. For a young, naive generation the promise of modernity was about to collide with the forces of an older, more-sinister world. It would be a costly fight.
Eighty years later, anoth...
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