Ep49. Did WWI start our era of Disorder?
b'Exactly 110 years ago, a malnourished teenager with a pistol disordered the world. On Sunday the 28th of June 1914, Gavrilo Princip fired two bullets. They hit their targets -- killing both the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian imperial crown, and his wife, Sophie.\\xa0\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nThat event ended the age of the traditional European empires, unleashed the mud and blood of the Great War, catalysed the fall of the Tsar and theoretical Marxism\\u2019s transformation into a totalitarian reality, and uncorked the nationalist genie that would lead to Hitler, the Second World War, the Holocaust, and later the Cold War. But did it also start our era of Enduring Disorder?\\xa0\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nJason has certain contentions about the relative degree of order and disorder in the past -- notably that the years 1815-2011, in general, and 1946-2003, in specific, were periods characterized by global order and coherent hegemonic leadership -- but what if he is wrong? What if our global disorder didn\\u2019t start in 2003 but rather in 1914?\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nIn this special anniversary episode of Disorder, Tim Butcher tells Jason Pack about that fateful day exactly 110 years ago, what its disordering implications have been, how they have rippled down the years, and how modern history can be thought to have begun on that street corner in Sarajevo.\\xa0\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nPrincip has been variously described as the `bloodiest assassin in history\\u2019 and \\u2018the most important person in the entire 20th century\\u2019\\u2026 but in this episode, we are going to investigate if he is -- possibly more so than even Trump, Putin or the Ayatollahs -- our world\\u2019s true disorder-in-chief\\u2026 As Tim explains, there is every reason to feel that the world of the Fin de Si\\xe8cle was in fact more order than what came after it and that Princip is the author of the Disorder that we now inhabit.\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nTwitter: @DisorderShow\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nSubscribe to our Substack: https://natoandtheged.substack.com/\\xa0\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nWebsite: https://natoandtheglobalenduringdisorder.com/\\xa0\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nProducer: George McDonagh\\xa0\\nExec Producer: Neil Fearn\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nShow Notes Links\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nBuy \\u2018The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War\\u2019 by Tim Butcher - https://www.amazon.com/Trigger-Hunting-Assassin-Brought-World/dp/0802123899/\\xa0\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nFor more on Gavrilo Princip\\u2019s biography: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gavrilo-Princip\\xa0\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nFor more on Tim Butcher\\u2019s amazing career: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Butcher\\xa0\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nAnd for his great episode on our sister Pod, Battleground: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/121-how-the-2006-war-relates-to-gaza-today/id1617276298?i=1000640849125\\xa0\\xa0\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'