 Anievas believes that countries in Europe such as Germany and Russia had tried to bolster their empires due to the collapse of influence from the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans region of Europe.In this attempt, major crisis's such as the Bosnian and Morocco crisis's broke out These crisis brought forth another of problems on the European stage.For example, due to the Bosnian Crisis, Russia had now suffered a major embarrassment on the world stage which led to the downfall of their relationship with Austria-Hungary and which also led to the aggressive behavior that Russia was showing during the July Crisis in which they ordered an early mobilization.