The Role of History in the Decision-Making of a State

The role the weight of history in the decision-making of someone like chamberland that world war one just weighs on him in a way that it is easy to fail to appreciate if you didn't live through the same things. What is the role of ideology I suppose that's the part we haven't addressed yet here and it's something that somebody like me would have until reading your book habitually dismissed realism as a useful way of looking at the world. Many elites that were governing Britain especially in the conservative party were not fascists were not evil but they were comfortable with the idea that an authoritarian Germany would come to dominate the European continent. This had to do with Chamberlain and his larger cohorts relative comfort