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Developed from the Congress of Vienna (1814–15), a series of international meetings in Aachen, Germany, in 1818, Troppau, Austria, in 1820, and Verona, Italy, in 1822. British opposition to the use of congresses by Klemens Metternich as a weapon against liberal and national movements inside Europe brought them to an end as a system of international arbitration, although congresses continued to meet into the 1830s.



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What a viable, long-term concert of powers strategy requires first is to strengthen and even widen existing alliances (as with the Clinton defense agreement with Japan and the ongoing expansion of NATO), and second, to draw the once and possible future adversary, Russia, into the circle of the concert, exactly as France was recruited into the original Concert of Europe only three years after the defeat of Napoleon.
American Ascendancy; And the Pretense of Concert by Bell, Coral / The National Interest
One can build on this, too; Mandelbaum envisages a series of inclusive security arrangements roughly analogous to the Concert of Europe - the informal understandings forged among the great powers in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars that, he argues, constituted, "the most successful postwar European settlement.
The Dawn of Peace in Europe by Gedmin, Jeffrey / The National Interest
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