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Metternich and the Suez Canal: Informal Diplomacy in the Interests of Central Europe

Authors: Šedivý Miroslav

Year: 2022

Type of publication: článek v odborném periodiku

Name of source: Central European History

Publisher name: Cambridge University Press

Place: New York

Page from-to: 372-389

Titles:

Language	Name	Abstract	Keywords
cze	Metternich a Suezský průplav: Neformální diplomacie v zájmu střední Evropy	Cílem studie je analýza podpory rakouského kancléře Metternicha projektu výstavby Suezského průplavu; zvláštní zřetel je věnován vlivu zájmů habsburské monarchie a střední Evropy na realizaci tohoto projektu.	habsburská monarchie; střední Evropa; doba předbřeznová; Suezský průplav; Osmanská říše
eng	Metternich and the Suez Canal: Informal Diplomacy in the Interests of Central Europe	Klemens von Metternich played an important role as leader of the Austrian bureaucrats and diplomats in supporting construction of the Suez Canal. He participated in many ways, often informal ones, which before 1848 resulted from his political circumspection and afterward from the fact that he was just a private individual. His so-to-speak informal diplomacy is interesting not only because it discloses the high level of interest he and other Austrian dignitaries paid to the issue but also because it reveals how accessible Metternich was to those involved in the project regardless of nationality, political leanings, and religion. Metternich's interest in the Suez Canal brought him into contact with Europeans as well as Ottomans, conservatives as well as liberals, and even Saint-Simonians: in other words, all who wished to cooperate for the benefit of central Europe and beyond.	Habsburg empire; central Europe; Vormarz; Suez Canal; Ottoman Empire

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