Monarchy, democracy and empire: German imperial policy before 1914

该项目旨在提高对君主立宪制作为英国以外的一种政治形式的历史的了解。它询问了在第一次世界大战之前是谁推动了德国的全球帝国主义外交政策，以及他们是如何做到的。通过研究德国君主与国家和社会的其他部门之间的权力竞争，该项目将确定政治变革对德意志帝国的影响。这个项目暴露了1914年之前皇室特权和宪政国家之间的紧张关系，解释了君主制和民主原则之间的斗争如何反映在欧洲帝国对抗的历史中。

This project aims to improve knowledge of the history of constitutional monarchy as a political form outside of Britain. It asks who drove Germany's global imperialist foreign policy prior to World War One and how they did so. By studying the contest for power between the German monarch and other arms of the state and society, the project will establish the effects of political change on the German Empire. Laying bare the tension between the royal prerogative and the constitutional state prior to 1914, this project explains how the struggle between the principles of monarchy and democracy was reflected in the history of Europe's imperial rivalries.