Henry Kissinger: World War I Was 'Structurally Unavoidable'

In July, Reuters held a panel to discuss the underlying causes of World War I. The war, which began one hundred years ago today, was the end result of the assassination of Hapsburg archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914. Even a century later, its cause is a topic of raging debate among historians and policy makers. There is still no consensus over who caused the war or if it was avoidable, even among some of the brightest minds in the modern history of American foreign policy. The panel, whic...