Books in the The Modern European State System series

Provides an analytical narrative of the functioning of the European states system over the 19th-century between the fall of Napoleon in 1814 and the outbreak of WWI just one hundred years later. This book examines the devices, manoeuvres and feats of statesmanship by means of which decision-makers managed the interplay of their interests.

Examines a key development in modern European history: the origins and emergence of a competitive state system. Enhanced by maps and a chronology of principal events, this book addresses the crucial phase in the emergence of the modern international system with the subsequent addition of the USA, Japan, and Russia.

This work examines the early years of the post-medieval European states and the growth of a recognizably "modern" state system for handling international relations. The work focuses mainly on France, Spain and England, but also on the Northern and Eastern European states.