Unlike either the age of Napoleon preceding it or the age of
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- The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers whole source · open book
Unlike either the age of Napoleon preceding it or the age of Bismarck following it, therefore, the period 1815–1865 internationalized most of its tricky political problems (Belgium, Greece), and frowned upon unilateral actions. All this gave a basic, if precarious, stability to the existing states system.
chapter: The “Middle Powers”