The exciting and provocative history of global governance by the distinguished author Mark Mazower. Nominated for the RUSI 2013 Duke of Wellington Medal for Military Literature. In 1815, the shocked and exhausted victors of the decades of war that had devastated Europe agreed to a new system for maintaining peace. Instead of changing sides, making deals, and betraying each other, a new, collegial 'Concert of Europe' would ensure that the violent anarchy of the Napoleonic Wars would never be repeated. Mark Mazower's remarkable new book recreates two centuries of international governance - the effort to spread values and build institutions to bring order to an anarchic and dangerous state system.

Pages: 496, Dimensions: 13x13cm