As we all know, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip on June 28th, 1914, and set off a series of events that led to World War I.<P>What is often not addressed, however, is the ...

India may not be heading for the same fate as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but that doesn’t mean the example is flawed. Last week, Franz-Stefan Gady wrote an excellent article comparing India to the ...

My grandmother told me that in Prague one day, when she was a child, she saw a man throwing coins onto the street and yet nobody was picking them up. Then her mother explained that those coins weren’t ...

Russian Czarism undoubtedly represents a cruder and more barbarian form of state organization than does the feebler absolutism of Austria-Hungary, which has been mitigated by the weakness of old age.

A young Bosnian Serb had one plan to free his people from the monarchy of Austria-Hungary: kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the crown. The intricate assassination plan ended up setting off a ...

[Unfortunately, through miscarriage in the mails, this paper is some six weeks overdue; but the Editors thought that Mr. Buxton’s great knowledge of the Near-Eastern question would still be useful to ...