A peace settlement to end a major war can be an opportunity to reorder the world. After the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte in ...

Summit diplomacy will become even more crucial in a world facing increasingly complex challenges which demand collective ...

Can talks between the US and Russia reach a lasting settlement over Ukraine? So far, argues historian Margaret MacMillan, the ...

At most, they follow Metternich in regarding it as the fleeting and idealistic counterpart of the Concert of Europe, a more substantial and enduring system of treaties and conferences inaugurated at ...

Chairman Christoph Heusgen, started crying after an intellectual spanking by United States Vice-President J.D. Vance, you ...

Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world “Making peace is harder than waging war,” Georges Clemenceau, the French prime minister, said in 1919 of the Paris ...

In some ways, this period of relative peace resembled the decades of stability that followed the 1814 to 1815 Congress of Vienna, which marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Over the past few years, ...

In some ways, this period of relative peace resembled the decades of stability that followed the 1814-15 Congress of Vienna, which marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Over the past few years, the ...

New political order established at the Congress of Vienna After the victory over Napoleon, the Congress of Vienna met from September 1814 to June 1815 to redraw the political map of Europe. The ...

The Congress at Vienna (1814–15), by contrast, achieved much, settling Europe for nearly a century. But its counterpart at Versailles (1918–19) failed – mainly because the Germans were not part of it, ...

In 1801, the District of Columbia was placed under the jurisdiction of Congress. In 1814, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93, was first performed in Vienna.