The Concert of Europe and Great-Power Governance Today: What Can the Order of 19th-Century Europe Teach Policymakers About International Order in the 21st Century?

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Winning the War and Losing the Peace: Spain and the Congress of Vienna

“…The congress was always more about process than it was about substance. 139 What was at stake was not what individual states gained but what role they would play in the Concert of Europe. And, in this, Spain was out of tune.…”