@article{ref1,
title="Metternich, Bismarck, and the Myth of the “Long Peace,” 1815–1914",
journal="Peace and change",
year="2007",
author="Anderson, Sheldon",
volume="32",
number="3",
pages="301-328",
abstract="Many Western scholars and foreign-policy makers have lauded the Congress of Vienna, Metternich's “Concert of Europe,” and Prussian chancellor Otto von Bismarck's alliance system for keeping a “long peace” from 1815 to 1914. The superiority of nineteenth-century statecraft is a myth. Europe was busy at war between 1815 and 1914, if not in conflicts on the scale of the Napoleonic Wars and World War I. Furthermore, the chancelleries of nineteenth-century Europe not only quelled national uprisings, but suppressed peoples’ political rights and waged imperial wars throughout Africa and Asia. From the perspective of a Pole, a disenfranchised European, or an Indian, the century was not a “long peace” but a “long war.”<p />",
language="",
issn="0149-0508",
doi="10.1111/j.1468-0130.2007.00443.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0130.2007.00443.x"
}