Michael is joined by Professor John Blaxland, Professor of International Security & Intelligence Studies, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre ANU, for a discussion on whether past events could be repeated as world tensions rise.

It was on 28 June 1914, Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated in Sarajevo by the 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip, a member of Young Bosnia.

This lead to the ‘July Crisis’ and precipitated Austria-Hungary’s declaration of war against Serbia, which in turn triggered a series of events that eventually led to World War I.

Michael poses the question of whether a miscalculation today with Taiwan or Russia could be a similar trigger for WWIII.

Download this podcast here