Yes the Balkan Wars involved Great Powers, but its not like we have no wars that 'involve' great powers now (looking at you Syria). So again, from 1870 until 19

Yes the Balkan Wars involved Great Powers, but its not like we have no wars that 'involve' great powers now (looking at you Syria). So again, from 1870 until 1914 there were very few wars, the hole population of europe basically had not experienced war. I would thus argue that the world of 1914 was not more inherently in a great power struggle then we are now.