The Opium Wars arose from China's attempts to suppress the opium trade.
According to Helen Castor, a historian at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, the wars arose from the slow breakdown of English government under Henry VI, a man who was prone to bouts of mental illness and "curiously incapable" even when well.
But events were moving fast on the political front as the Singh Government was threatened by accusations that it allowed the religious dispute to erupt, and by the prospect of a caste war arising from Mr. Singh's national affirmative action plan for disadvantaged Indians, which has caused widespread demonstrations since it was announced in the summer.
But they fear the growing danger of nuclear war arising from miscalculation at times of crisis.
Russian officials have distanced themselves from the annexation claims, deeming the separatists' action a civil war arising from mistreatment of the Russian minority by the Ukrainian government in Kiev.
Donald Markwel argued that in the absence of such an international approach, there would be a risk of worsening international relations and possibly even world war arising from similar economic factors to those present during the depression of the 1930s.
The First Anglo-Burmese War arose from friction between Arakan in western Burma and British-held Chittagong to the north.
Their destruction, as by British planners after the war, arises from some Orwellian yearning to deny the past and engineer a new society, usually to make someone money.
The war arose from the conflict of great powers in the Middle East and was more directly caused by Russian demands to exercise protection over the Orthodox subjects of the Ottoman sultan.
Second, "the principal risk of nuclear war arises from the uncontrollable" events that take place during genuine crises – such as simple mistakes or errors of perception – and not from the risk that rational human beings will intend war as a matter of policy.
To those whose sense of history derives, as mine does, from the thumb-nail sketch offered in high school, the First World War arose from a tinderbox of overcommitted alliances that was ignited by the striking of a political match — the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand by the Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip.
