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Abstract:
Social network analysis is used to show that underlying systemic structuremade
war more likely to spread in 1914 than earlier in the century.The
changing network density of three diffusion processes is seenas crucial--alliances,
interstate rivalries, and territorial disputes.The findings show
that the density of each of these factors increasedin the system
in varying degrees from 1900 to the end of 1913. Howthe three diffusion
processes interacted with contiguity to makethe local war between
Austria-Hungary and Serbia spread to becomea world war is explained
both theoretically and historically.
