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"Normative Change in European Politics before 1914: The Emergence of the Principle of Nationality"
Historians have long seen the Bosnian Crisis of 1908/9 as one of the key staging posts on Europe's path to war in 1914. Pitting Austria-Hungary and Germany against Russia and Serbia, the crisis anticipated many of the elements in the July crisis - prestige and honor, threatened use of military force, and the dragging of allies into conflict in the Balkans. This seminar will argue that the main consequence of the Bosnian crisis was the violation of great power diplomatic norms, the unilateral tearing up of the Treaty of Berlin (1878), and the search for alternative justifications for diplomatic action within Europe, in particular the articulation of alternative ideas of an imperial civilizing mission and the nationality principle.
About William Mulligan
William Mulligan is a historian of international relations focusing on events between the 1860s and 1940s. After completing his Ph.D at the University of Cambridge in 2001, William lectured at University College Dublin and the University of Glasgow. Since 2008, William Mulligan has taught at University College Dublin. He has written three books, including The Origins of the First World War (Cambridge, 2nd edition, 2017) and The Great War for Peace (Yale UP, 2014). He has held visiting fellowships at the Institutes for Advanced Study in Princeton and Berlin.