Securing Europe after Napoleon: 1815 and the New European Security Culture

by Beatrice de Graaf (Editor), Ido de Haan (Editor), Brian Vick (Editor)

After the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, the leaders of Europe at the Congress of Vienna aimed to establish a new balance of power. The settlement established in 1815 ushered in the emergence of a genuinely European security culture. In this volume, leading historians offer new insights into the military cooperation, ambassadorial conferences, transnational police networks, and international commissions that helped produce stability. They delve into the lives of diplomats, ministers, police officers and bankers, and many others who were concerned with peace and security on and beyond the European continent. This volume is a crucial contribution to the debates on securitisation and security cultures emerging in response to threats to the international order.

325 pages, Hardcover

First published February 7, 2019

About the author

Dutch historian, senator and writer on terrorism.

In 2004 she promoted on her thesis about the relationship of Dutch churches with the German Democratic Republic.

In 2007 she co-founded the Centre for Terrorism and Counterterrorism of the University of Leiden.

In 2015 she was on the candidate's list for the Senate for the social-christian ChristenUnie party.