TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - Metternich, Bismarck, and the Myth of the “Long Peace,” 1815–1914
JO  - Peace and change
A1  - Anderson, Sheldon
SP  - 301
EP  - 328
VL  - 32
IS  - 3
N2  - 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 /> 
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SN  - 0149-0508
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0130.2007.00443.x
ID  - ref1
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