Text of Lecture by Andrew Lichterman: Looking Forward, Looking Backward: World War I, Today’s Risk of Great Power war, and Nuclear Disarmament. Andrew Lichterman is a lawyer and policy analyst for the Western States Legal Foundation, based in Oakland, California. This is the text of a presentation delivered at “Facing the Dangers of 21st Century Great Power War: A Conference on the Centenary of World War I,” held May 3, 2014, in New York City. The conference was sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee, Peace and Economic Security Program, International Peace Bureau, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York Office, and the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms and its U.S. affiliates, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy and the Western States Legal Foundation.