POLI 344 Lecture : January 29.doc

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 344
• Professor: Jason Scott Ferrell

Document Summary

Matters who the actors are if there is a perceived difference considered to be threatening then those actors have an interest in staying together: alliance would be used to retrain the great powers themselves. Push them try and adjudicate their difference as opposed to resorting to war. 1814 a treaty is signed agreeing to a 40 year alliance after the war. 1818 first conference according to the treaty of paris in order to regulate. Implications: conservative regime within the context of european politics, major powers at the international level were going to regulate domestic, fear of revolutionary ideals leading to radical change on the continent level powers of the individual states. Breakdown of the concert system: wars reveal a huge ideological gap between britain and the other members of the. Quadruple alliance (liberalism + constructivism: all are monarchies but not are the same. Repress liberal ideals: britain is more interested in a role as a balancer uncomfortable with intervening.