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The War to End All Wars: Reflections on the First World War and Public Affairs
Harris, Phil
Harris, Phil
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Editorial As I write this many of us are reflecting upon the
outbreak and impact of the First World War on
Europe and the World. It was declared during the
Summer of 1914 in Europe, when much decision
making was limited due to leaders being on holiday
and was almost inevitable as some have argued, as
the trains had been booked and troops were mobilised.
Clearly political communications were not
good and European Continental Entente fell apart
under the pressures of ambition, greed, nationalism,
a lack of trust and public affairs systems not being in
place to build cooperation and stop mass
destruction.
As Margot Asquith the wife of the British Prime
minister put it “War! War! – everyone at dinner
discussing how long the war would last. The
average opinion was 3 weeks to 3 months” (24th
July 1914, Page 4 in Brock and Brock, 2014). Of
course others, Kitchener, amongst them said it
would be a year.
It was not a short war but a long one, that lasted
for over four years and sucked in every part of the
world and destroyed a generation of youth and
leaders, which Europe has taken almost a hundred
years to fully recover from. Let us reflect, draw
lessons and do all in our power to ensure it is never
contemplated again and that political decision
making and public affairs is never as in inadequate
again
The themes within this general issue of the JPA
focus on climate change, corruption, environmental
policy, lobbying, political marketing, public
affairs, renewable energy and water policy. A
range of critical areas of study and operation both
for the modern researcher and practitioner in
international public affairs. Countries covered
include Belgium, Eire, Switzerland, UK, US and
of course organisationally interesting in trade and
regulation terms the WTO. Followed by various articles
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Harris, P. (2015). The War to End All Wars: Reflections on the First World War and Public Affairs. Journal of Public Affairs, 15(1), 1-3. doi: 10.1002/pa.1559
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10.1002/pa.1559
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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Harris, P. (2015). The War to End All Wars: Reflections on the First World War and Public Affairs. Journal of Public Affairs, 15(1), 1-3 , which has been published in final form atdoi: 10.1002/pa.1559. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
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1479-1854