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- Securing Europe after Napoleon
- Securing Europe after Napoleon
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Vienna 1815
- Part I Conceptualisations
- 1 Cultures of Peace and Security from the Vienna Congress to the Twenty-First Century
- 2 Historicising a Security Culture: Peace, Security and the Vienna System in History and Politics, 1815 to Present
- 3 The Congress of Vienna as a Missed Opportunity
- Part II Institutions and Interests
- Part III Threats
- Part IV Agents and Practices
- Index
3 - The Congress of Vienna as a Missed Opportunity
Conservative Visions of a New European Order after Napoleon
from Part I - Conceptualisations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2019
- Securing Europe after Napoleon
- Securing Europe after Napoleon
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Vienna 1815
- Part I Conceptualisations
- 1 Cultures of Peace and Security from the Vienna Congress to the Twenty-First Century
- 2 Historicising a Security Culture: Peace, Security and the Vienna System in History and Politics, 1815 to Present
- 3 The Congress of Vienna as a Missed Opportunity
- Part II Institutions and Interests
- Part III Threats
- Part IV Agents and Practices
- Index
Summary
The European order created at the Congress of Vienna has often been characterised as an attempt to repress the revolutionary spirit inspired by a conservative ‘philosophy of fear’. This chapter presents an alternative vision of post-revolutionary conservative Europeanism, not asa local or national reaction to the universalism of Enlightenment and Revolution, but as a ‘counter-revolutionary international’ of ‘conservative cosmopolitanism’, embodiedby anti-revolutionary émigrés, and those who contributed to an international coalition against Napoleon. More than longing for an imagined Ancien Régime or a distant medieval past, conservative Europeanism was inspired by ideas of spiritual as well as moral regeneration of a Christian European civilisation in decay, similar to notions of renewal proposedby progressive authors in the ‘European moment’ after 1814.
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- Securing Europe after Napoleon1815 and the New European Security Culture, pp. 56 - 72Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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