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Scandinavia and the post-Napoleonic Order: Some Reflections on the Transition Period 1839–1871

Autoři: Šedivý Miroslav

Rok: 2025

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Jazyk	Název	Abstrakt	Klíčová slova
eng	Scandinavia and the post-Napoleonic Order: Some Reflections on the Transition Period 1839–1871	"In their general surveys on the history of international relations from 1815 to 1914 historians and political scientests have usually paid little attention to the events and processes in Northern Europe. In this respect, the Baltic Sea and the Eider River have represented not only a geographical but also to some extent a mental bulwark. Only sketchy information about the role of Denmark and Sweden-Norway in the post-Napoleonic states system usually breaks through this barrier. The following examples can be considered as exceptions: the settlement of Scandinavian future at the end of the Napoleonic Wars (The Treaty of Kiel), the position assumed by Scandinavian countries during the Crimena War, and the Schleswig-Holstein Question. As this paper will attempt to demonstrate, the interaction between this region and the political-legal system of international relations established in 1815 was far richer. The fact that geographically Scandinavia was indeed on the system’s periphery is of lesser importance. The strong interplay between the former and the latter is illustrated both by various international affairs, interrelated processes and not least the attention that other Europeans paid to this part of their Continent. The paper will focus on a period that can be described as transitional in the history of the post-Napolenic states system, namely the years 1839–1871. It was then that the crisis of the international order occurred, which manifested itself at the governmental level and in the public, and stimulated important processes like nationalism, imperialism, colonialism, Realpolitik, an organized peace movement and, not least, the globalization of this order. The symptoms of the crisis also became visible in Northern Europe. Some of these serve as fitting examples of Scandinavia’s more intensive involvement in the development of the post-Napoleonic states system than some historians and political scientists have so far assumed."