The compelling & provocative history of world government, from acclaimed author Mark Mazower. In 1815 the shocked & exhausted victors of the decades of fighting that had engulfed Europe for a generation agreed to a new system for keeping the peace. Instead of independent states changing sides, doing deals & betraying one another, a new, collegial ` Concert of Europe` would ensure that the brutal chaos of the Napoleonic Wars never happened again. Mark Mazower`s remarkable new book recreates two centuries of international government
- the struggle to spread values & build institutions to bring order to an anarchic & dangerous state system.