Book contents
- Securing Europe after Napoleon
- Securing Europe after Napoleon
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Vienna 1815
- Part I Conceptualisations
- Part II Institutions and Interests
- Part III Threats
- 9 Constructing an International Conspiracy
- 10 Security and Transnational Policing of Political Subversion and International Crime in the German Confederation after 1815
- 11 The Papacy, Reform and Intervention
- 12 From Augarten to Algiers
- Part IV Agents and Practices
- Index
11 - The Papacy, Reform and Intervention
International Collective Security in Restoration Italy
from Part III - Threats
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
- Part II Institutions and Interests
- Part III Threats
- 9 Constructing an International Conspiracy
- 10 Security and Transnational Policing of Political Subversion and International Crime in the German Confederation after 1815
- 11 The Papacy, Reform and Intervention
- 12 From Augarten to Algiers
- Part IV Agents and Practices
- Index
Summary
In contrast to the largely critical historiography on the Italian portion of the system established at the Congress of Vienna, this chapter argues that most Italians were happy to see the establishment of a Habsburg hegemony, in part as the main driver for reform within the peninsula. Moreover, the major European powers welcomed the Austrians as guarantors of stability in a traditionally contested area, where unrest or international rivalry risked triggering European war. Confronted with Catholic majorities or significant Catholic minorities in most major European states, it was considered crucial within the new climate of collective security to defend the Papacy, while simultaneously encouraging successive Popes to forestall domestic unrest through adopting more progressive politics. The Vienna Settlement in Italy should not be viewed teleologically as a failure, but rather as yet another example of cooperation between states.
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- Securing Europe after Napoleon1815 and the New European Security Culture, pp. 214 - 230Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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