Book contents
- The New Atlantic Order
- The New Atlantic Order
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- Introduction
- Part I Inevitable Descent into the Abyss?
- 1 Peace Through Equilibrium
- 2 Transformation and Corrosion
- 3 The “Ascent” of an Exceptionalist World Power
- 4 Counterforces – and First Visions of a Novel Transatlantic Peace
- 5 The Unavoidable War?
- Part II The Greatest War – and No Peace without Victory
- Part III Reorientations and Incipient Learning Processes
- Part IV No Pax Atlantica
- Epilogue The Political Consequences of the Peace
- Bibliography
- Index
1 - Peace Through Equilibrium
The Nineteenth Century’s Vienna System – and Its Disintegration
from Part I - Inevitable Descent into the Abyss?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 April 2022
- The New Atlantic Order
- The New Atlantic Order
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- Introduction
- Part I Inevitable Descent into the Abyss?
- 1 Peace Through Equilibrium
- 2 Transformation and Corrosion
- 3 The “Ascent” of an Exceptionalist World Power
- 4 Counterforces – and First Visions of a Novel Transatlantic Peace
- 5 The Unavoidable War?
- Part II The Greatest War – and No Peace without Victory
- Part III Reorientations and Incipient Learning Processes
- Part IV No Pax Atlantica
- Epilogue The Political Consequences of the Peace
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 1 offers a reappraisal of the pathbreaking efforts of the peacemakers of the Congress of Vienna (1814–15) to establish a more durable European peace order, and a new European concert, after the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. It then shows how the 19th century’s Vienna system provided novel mechanisms, rules and understandings to preserve peace and a new, more legitimate international equilibrium in and beyond Europe, thereby also creating essential conditions for the rise of the United States. Yet it also illuminates how changes in international politics and competing nationalist aspirations eventually led to the disintegration of the peace order of 1814–15 and the European concert in the aftermath of the trans-European revolutions of 1848–49 and the Crimean War of 1853–56.
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- The New Atlantic OrderThe Transformation of International Politics, 1860–1933, pp. 45 - 63Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022