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"The conflicting interests of the Great Powers made its failure inevitable." Discuss this veredict on the Congress System.
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"The conflicting interests of the Great Powers made its failure inevitable." Discuss this veredict on the Congress System. In this essay, I'm going to assess to what extent was the conflicting interests between Austria, Russia, Britain, France and Prussia responsible for the Congress System's failure, as the above statement suggests. To do this I will have to analyse how did these contradictory interests lead to the collapse of the System and analyse the other important factors such as: the lack of a common enemy, the change in staff, the lack of set aims and objectives and the lack of organization and look at very important events that started at 1818, where the Great European powers met in a sequence of congresses to discuss some specific affairs. But by the end of 1822, the real purpose of the Congress System was still not understood. Specific affairs such as the rising revolutions between...
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