World War 1 Individual Level Of Analysis

World War 1 was one war that would not be forgotten so easily, and although this was happened in ages ago, the major cause of the war is still up for debate. People have different opinion of what might have caused that devastating war. Some people look at the cause of the war from an individual level, while others look at its cause from a domestic or systematic level, but in whatever level we argue is the major cause of the war, we cannot deny the fact that every level of analysis played some part in the cause of the war of 1914 which lasted for four years (1914-1918). The individual level of analysis which focuses on decisions made by individual states and how this decisions come into play in the international system, so when analyzing the cause of the World War 1 with this level of analysis, we can put the blame on individual leaders who made poor decisions that led the world into a chaos in 1914. One of this poor leadership who the war might have originated from is the German king, Kaiser Wilhelm 11, who ascended the throne in 1888 (World Politics, p.79. par.2). When Kaiser ascended the throne, he

Though they avoided the use of their military on their colonist who gave them what they needed, the policy of strategic exclusion that was created by British brought some tensions among states. Since all other states were interested in Africa, it became a clash of imperialist interest among Germany, Britain, and France. By the time Germany and other left out states joined the wagon of colonial race, there was no place available for colonization, because the early comers had taken control of everything. This single fact made Germany very upset cause they believed that their chances of competing with the great powers depended on the raw materials and trading partners they hoped to achieve from the colonization process (World Politics,