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Notes
1. See Robert S. McNamara and James G. Blight, Wilson's Ghost: Reducing the Risk of
Conflict, Killing, and Catastrophe in the 21st Century (New York: Public Affairs, 2003) and the SAGE
publication journal Conflict Management and Peace Science, accessed February 21, 2018, http://
journals.sagepub.com/home/cmpb.
2. Paul D. Senese and John A. Vasquez, The Steps to War: An Empirical Study (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2008), 7.
3. Ibid., 1.
4. See Senese and Vasquez, and Ryan Maness and Brandon Valeriano, “Russia and the
Near Abroad: Applying a Risk Barometer for War,” The Journal of Slavic Military Studies 25, no. 2
(2012): 125-128.
5. Senese and Vasquez, 1-2.
6. Maness and Brandon, 125-128.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Parliament, Times (London), March 18, 1909, under “The Alternatives,” accessed
October 17, 2017, https://www.newspapers.com/image/33204414/.
10. Encyclopaedia Brittanica, s.v. “John Dillon,” accessed August 7, 2017, https://
www.britannica.com/biography/John-Dillon; Parliament; quotations appear in the article and are
paraphrases of Members of Parliament original speeches rather than stenographical dictations.
11. Frederic Harrison, letter to the editor, Times (London), March 18, 1909, accessed
October 17, 2017, https://www.newspapers.com/image/33204474.
12. Harrison.
13. These two gentlemen appear in the same March 18, 1909 edition of The Times which
may provide sufficient cause for other researchers to conflate the two personalities as the same person
since both individuals were prominent public figures, albeit in two very different contemporary spheres
of influence.
14. Harrison.
15. Ceadel, 1673.
16. Harrison.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid. Bismarck’s military campaigns were followed by twenty years of peace under his
leadership as Chancellor of the German Empire. After his death, German policymakers returned to a
militaristic foreign policy strategy for the subsequent twenty-year period to which Harrison refers.
19. See Charles Arnold-Baker, “German Empire or Second Reich (1871-1914),” in The
Companion to British History, 2 nd ed. (London: Routledge, 2001); William F. H. Altman, Friedrich
Wilhelm Nietzsche: The Philosopher of the Second Reich (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013); and
James Retallack, Germany’s Second Reich: Portraits and Pathways (Toronto: University of Toronto
Press, 2015).
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