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Does maintaining a balance of power promote or prevent war?

“The Congress of Vienna represented the highest achievements of European balance-of-power politics: faced with the task of creating a lasting peace following the generation of warfare, the statesmen at Vienna succeeded admirably.” Do you agree?.

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Does maintaining a balance of power promote or prevent war?

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  1. “The Congress of Vienna represented the highest achievements of European balance-of-power politics: faced with the task of creating a lasting peace following the generation of warfare, the statesmen at Vienna succeeded admirably.” Do you agree?

  2. Does maintaining a balance of power promote or prevent war?

  3. What is the best way to create political and economic stability?

  4. What should be the balance between individual freedom and state authority?

  5. Make an argument in favor of inspiration and intuition over reason and science.

  6. What was Metternichs vision? What were some threats to these conservative ideals?

  7. What was liberalism and how is it different from liberalism today?

  8. What is socialism and what were the main ideas of the most prominent socialists?

  9. How did liberalism, nationalism, and socialism all go against conservatism? Which class favored each idea?

  10. What was the idea of an “imagined community?”

  11. Explain the political revolutions of the 1830’s. (France, Belgium, Poland, Britain)

  12. The plight of the Irish during the Great Famine: was the disaster inevitable or avoidable? Should the British have done more to relieve distress? If so, what could have been done?

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