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German Foreign Policy - The History of Falling Powers
Germans were no longer a confident rising power at the time thae world, or one started. It was a power that understood that its capabilities, at least in relative terms, had piqued and were on the verge of decline. After otto von bismarck left the scene, after the accession of cavlhelm the second, the german foreign policy began to evolve in a more aggressive direction. And so it's a classic example of how a country that is already strong, but has begun to pique, can make some really rash decisions based on a fear that to morrow will be worse than to day.
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