Sahara Tetsuya    Department   Undergraduate School  , School of Political Science and Economics    Position   Professor
Language	English
Publication Date	2015/12
Type	Book
Title	The First World War, Serbia, The Balkans and Great Powers,
Contribution Type	Sole-authored
Journal Type	Another Country
Publisher	Institute of History & Strategic Research Institute
Volume, Issue, Page	pp.401-425
Responsible for	The Macedonian Origin of "Black Hand"
Details	This study assesses the extent of effects that the interaction between international terrorist organizations gave to the outbreak of WWI, taking the Serbian and Bulgarian cases as examples. In the course of the Macedonian Struggle, the Serbian nationalists adopted the organizational tactics of the IMRO, which eventually gave rise to the "Black Hand," and its contact with the "Young Bosnians." Their terrorist activities brought about a socio-political chaos in Macedonia, and constituted one of the most important origins of the Balkan War. The war brought an end to the Ottoman Balkan rule, and at the same time, to the fragile consensus of the Russo-Austrian status quo. The final rupture of the regional balance of power was triggered off by another terrorist action in Sarajevo, an offshoot of international terrorist interactions.