Securing Europe after Napoleon: 1815 and the New European Security Culture

Cambridge University Press, 2/7/2019
EAN 9781108428224, ISBN10: 1108428223

Hardcover, 325 pages, 23.5 x 15.9 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

After the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, the leaders of Europe at the Congress of Vienna aimed to establish a new balance of power. The settlement established in 1815 ushered in the emergence of a genuinely European security culture. In this volume, leading historians offer new insights into the military cooperation, ambassadorial conferences, transnational police networks, and international commissions that helped produce stability. They delve into the lives of diplomats, ministers, police officers and bankers, and many others who were concerned with peace and security on and beyond the European continent. This volume is a crucial contribution to the debates on securitisation and security cultures emerging in response to threats to the international order.

Vienna 1815
introducing a European security culture Beatrice de Graaf, Ido De Haan and Brian Vick
Part I. Conceptualisations
1. Cultures of peace and security from the Vienna Congress to the twenty-first century
characteristics and dilemmas Matthias Schulz
2. Historicising a security culture
peace, security and the Vienna system in history and politics, 1815 to present Eckart Conze
3. The Congress of Vienna as a missed opportunity
conservative visions of a new European order after Napoleon Matthijs Lok
Part II. Interests
4. The Central Commission for Navigation of the Rhine
a first step towards European economic security? Joep Schenk
5. From the balance of power to a balance of diplomacy? Peace and security in the Vienna settlement Stella Ghervas
6. The London Ambassadors' Conferences and beyond
abolition, Barbary corsairs and multilateral security in the Congress of Vienna system Brian Vick
7. The allied machine
the Conference of Ministers in Paris and the management of security, 1815–18 Beatrice De Graaf
8. The German Confederation
cornerstone of the new European security system Wolf D. Gruner
Part III. Threats
9. Constructing an international conspiracy
revolutionary concertation and police networks in the European restoration Ido De Haan and Jeroen Van Zanten
10. Security and transnational policing of political subversion and international crime in the German confederation after 1815 Karl Härter
11. The papacy, reform, and intervention
international collective security in restoration Italy David Laven
12. From Augarten to Algiers
securitising and 'piracy' around the Congress of Vienna Erik De Lange
Part IV. Agents and Practices
13. Friedrich Von Gentz and his Wallachian correspondents
security concerns in a Southeastern European Borderland (1812–28) Constantin Ardeleanu
14. Diplomats as power brokers Mark Jarrett
15. Economic insecurity, 'securities' and a European security culture after the Napoleonic wars Glenda Sluga.