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The Strategic Setting The Strategic Setting
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British Thinking About Postwar Order British Thinking About Postwar Order
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Securing a Comprehensive Peace Securing a Comprehensive Peace
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Maintaining the Alliance Maintaining the Alliance
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Locking in Postwar Agreements Locking in Postwar Agreements
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Strategic Restraint Strategic Restraint
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Postwar Institutional Binding Postwar Institutional Binding
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Binding through Alliance Binding through Alliance
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Institutionalized Consultation and Restraint Institutionalized Consultation and Restraint
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Limits on Commitment and Restraint Limits on Commitment and Restraint
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Boundaries, Packages, and Windows of Opportunity Boundaries, Packages, and Windows of Opportunity
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Abstract
This chapter looks at the order building in the settlement of 1815. The peace settlement that ended the Napoleonic wars in 1815 gave Europe the most elaborately organized political order yet. Led by Great Britain, the European states mounted a sustained effort to find a mutually agreeable, comprehensive, and stable order; this effort culminated in the celebrated Congress of Vienna. The Vienna settlement departed from earlier postwar settlements in the way the leading state attempted to use institutions to manage relations among the great powers. There were, however, sharp limits to the binding character of these institutions. The British proposal for general security guarantee failed primarily because of the inability of the states involved to make binding commitments. There are some traces of constitutional order, but the 1815 case reveals the limits to which nondemocratic states can create binding institutions.
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