The Congress of Vienna’s 2014-2015 bicentennial brought renewed scholarly attention to both the Congress itself and the Concert of Europe it inaugurated. This wave of scholarship, as each of the four excellent reviewers of Glenda Sluga’s new book, The Invention of International Order: The Remaking of Europe After Napoleon, points out, is marked by a…
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Roundtable 7-11 on the Congress of Vienna and dialogue between IR scholars and historians
This year marks the bicentennial anniversary of the Congress of Vienna. From September of 1814 to June of 1815, over 200 representatives met in the Austrian capital to rebuild the foundations of European diplomacy, which lay in shambles after over twenty years of war. It was the great powers, the “Pentarchy” of Austria, Britain, France,…