Britain and the Origins of the First World War

Taking into account the scholarship of the last 20 years this new edition rejects recent arguments that Britain went to war out of either weakness fear of an invented German menace or fears for the Empire. Instead while placing greater emphasis than before on the role of Russia Zara S. Steiner and Keith Neilson maintain the view that Britain was forced into the war in order to preserve the European balance of power and Britain's favorable position within it.