• DOI:10.1080/07075332.2016.1214613
Corpus ID: 157658557

Balance of Power vs. Perpetual Peace: Paradigms of European Order from Utrecht to Vienna, 1713–1815

@article{Ghervas2017BalanceOP,
  title={Balance of Power vs. Perpetual Peace: Paradigms of European Order from Utrecht to Vienna, 1713–1815},
  author={S. Ghervas},
  journal={The International History Review},
  year={2017},
  volume={39},
  pages={404 - 425}
}

S. Ghervas

Published 2017

Political Science

The International History Review

ABSTRACT Over the course of the eighteenth century, two major models of European international order emerged as alternatives to universal monarchy: one was based on the balance of power; the other centred on the idea of perpetual peace. This article traces each back to its origins in debates around the moment of the Peace of Utrecht in 1713. In particular, it examines the evolution of the doctrine of balance of power in early eighteenth-century English political thought and then as a legal… CONTINUE READING

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