The Concert of Europe
A Fresh Look at an International System
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8042789 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard B Elrod (University of Missouri–Kansas City, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 159-174 |
| Publication date | 1976-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-8871 • E-ISSN: 1086-3338 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2009888 |
| OpenAlex | W2090555861 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 51 |
| References cited | 21 |
This essay examines the Concert of Europe as an international system and offers some general reflections and tentative conclusions about the meaning, the nature, and the operation of concert diplomacy between 1815 and 1854. It focuses upon the assumptions and procedures engendered by the Concert which restrained and moderated the policies of the European great powers by peaceful means. It concludes that the European Concert was a conscious and reasonably successful attempt to devise a stable and peaceful system of interstate relations
Diplomacy · Epistemology · International relations · Meaning (existential · Peaceful coexistence · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · European Political History Analysis · Law · Philosophy
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Global Summitry
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Central Asia in Asia
Is American Multilateralism in Decline
Concerts, Collective Security, and the Future of Europe
International Primacy
Why Nato is Still Best
The Great Powers and Regional Conflicts
Economic Cycles, Power Transitions, Political Management and Wars between Major Powers
International Systems and Cognitive Dissonances
Beyond the Westphalian rainbow
Immoderate greatness
Brokering change
Complexity and theories of change in international politics
The Past, Present, and Uncertain Future of Collective Conflict Management
The US–China Relationship and Asia-Pacific Security
International society’ versus’ ‘world society’
Conflict in the Balkans (1830–1913)
Small states
Informal Plurilateralism
Italy during the Rhine Crisis of 1840
The High Tide of Colonialism
Imagining middle powers
The myth of the European concert
Explaining the emergence of great power concerts
Alignment’ , not ‘alliance’ – the shifting paradigm of international security cooperation
The politics of inclusion
Geopolitics, social forces, and the international
The Inscrutable Intentions of Great Powers
The international milieu and foreign military intervention
International systems and regional security
Finding an analogy for tomorrow
The Balance of Power Heritage of "Interdependence" and "Traditionalism
The Cartographic State
The Congress of Vienna, 1814–1815
Explaining Variations in Regional Peace
From Balance to Concert
The untold story
The 19th-Century International System
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Sovereign Inequalities and Hierarchy in Anarchy
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Explaining Zones of Peace
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| Unique citing works | 51 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,16 |
| Citation span | 1982 - 2025 (44) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 50 |