Concert of Europe

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The Concert of Europe was a 19th-century diplomatic system in which the major European powers cooperated to maintain the balance of power and suppress revolutionary movements after the Napoleonic Wars.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form Occurrences
Age of Metternich 1
Concert of Europe period 1

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf balance of power system
diplomatic system
international order
appliesToTerritory Europe
basedOn principle of balance of power
principle of collective security among great powers
characteristic conservative ideology
informal diplomatic consultations
intervention in states to quell revolutions
multilateral diplomacy
periodic congresses and conferences of great powers
coreMember Austrian Habsburg Monarchy
surface form: Austrian Empire

Kingdom of France
Prussia
surface form: Kingdom of Prussia

Russian Empire
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
endTime circa 1914
fieldOfWork diplomatic history
international relations
followedBy pre–World War I alliance system
foundedAfter Napoleonic Wars
hasEffect containment of large-scale European wars until 1914
relative peace among great powers in 19th-century Europe
hasKeyFigure Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
surface form: Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

Klemens von Metternich
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
surface form: Robert Stewart Viscount Castlereagh

Alexander I of Russia
surface form: Tsar Alexander I of Russia
hasPart Congress System
hasParticipant Austria
France
Prussia
Russia
United Kingdom
hasPurpose maintain balance of power in Europe
maintain conservative political order
preserve territorial settlements of the Congress of Vienna
prevent hegemony of a single great power in Europe
suppress revolutionary movements
inceptionEvent Congress of Vienna
influenced development of international conferences
later concepts of collective security
influencedBy Treaty of Vienna (Final Act of the Congress of Vienna)
surface form: Congress of Vienna settlement
opposed liberal nationalism
republicanism in Europe
revolutionary movements of 1820s
revolutions of 1830
revolutions of 1848
precededBy Napoleonic European hegemony
startTime 1815
weakenedBy Crimean War
Franco-Prussian War

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Eastern Question addressedBy Concert of Europe
Holy Alliance cooperatedWith Concert of Europe
Congress of Vienna followedBy Concert of Europe
Napoleonic era followedBy Concert of Europe
this entity surface form: Concert of Europe period
Bourbon Restoration foreignPolicyContext Concert of Europe
this entity surface form: Age of Metternich
France and Austria involvedIn Concert of Europe
Russian Empire partOf Concert of Europe