Securing Europe after Napoleon
1815 and the New European Security Culture

Explores the development of a 'European security culture' from the Congress of Vienna to the First World War.

Beatrice de Graaf (Edited by), Ido de Haan (Edited by), Brian Vick (Edited by)

9781108428224, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 7 February 2019

325 pages, 1 b/w illus. 1 table
23.5 x 15.8 x 2.1 cm, 0.61 kg

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.

Subject Areas: Political leaders & leadership [JPHL], Political structure & processes [JPH], Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 [HBLL], European history [HBJD]