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8 - The German Confederation

Cornerstone of the New European Security System

from Part II - Institutions and Interests

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2019

By
Wolf D. Gruner
Edited by
Beatrice de Graaf ,
Ido de Haan  and
Brian Vick
Beatrice de Graaf
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Ido de Haan
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Brian Vick
Affiliation:
Emory University, Atlanta
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Summary

This chapter on the German Confederation examines the largest cornerstone of the new European security system, designed to stabilise the European centre and provide an institutional structure for the cooperation of the thirty-eight remaining German states in relation to the other powers. After addressing and commenting upon the (lack of) historiography on the Bund, the chapter squarely puts this analysis of the Confederation in the context of European collective security operations, with the Bund as one of the pillars of this new post-Napoleonic security edifice, especially tasked with securing a ‘double balance of power’. The chapter ultimately fleshes out the role of the Confederation as laid down in the Bundeskriegsverfassung: to provide security for the states of the German Confederation and at the same time be the ‘pacific state of Europe’ (Heeren).

Keywords

balance of powerEuropean federationGerman ConfederationHoly Roman Empireinternal and external securityinternational stabilityMitteleuropa
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Securing Europe after Napoleon
1815 and the New European Security Culture
 , pp. 150 - 168
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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