Holy Alliance as 'An Order of Things Conformable to the Interests of Europe and to the Laws of Religion and Humanity'
2015
Abstract
The historical argument advanced here is that the Holy Alliance embodied all the elements to be mentioned below. Trumpeting Christian unity and monarchical solidarity in achieving a 'durable peace' in Europe, the Holy Alliance - in the geopolitical contestation between Emperor Alexander I and Austrian Chancellor Clemens von Metternich - was liberal, reactionary, secular and religious, peaceful (through constitutionalism) and militaristic (through collective intervention) platform.