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“Europe was eclipsed through European folly due to the two world wars.” Elucidate.

  • UPSC 2014
  • The World after World War II

Europe entered the twentieth century as the unquestioned centre of world power and closed it as a subordinate theatre of a bipolar order it no longer controlled — a reversal self-inflicted by two wars Europeans themselves chose to fight.

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  • Two Wars, One Continuous European Civil War
  • The Material and Demographic Cost
  • Loss of Empire: Eclipse Made Formal
  • Intellectual and Scientific Pre-eminence Lost
  • Structural Replacement by Non-European Superpowers

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