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  • 6 - The London Ambassadors’ Conferences and Beyond

  • from Part II - Institutions and Interests
  • Edited by Beatrice de Graaf, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands, Ido de Haan, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands, Brian Vick, Emory University, Atlanta
  • Book:
    Securing Europe after Napoleon
    Published online:
    25 January 2019
    Print publication:
    07 February 2019, pp 114-129

  • Summary

    Ambassadorial conferences formed a primary mechanism of the Vienna system of international relations and of the related European security culture that emerged after 1815. These gatherings offered more flexible opportunities for multilateral consultation and negotiation than did the rarer congress summit meetings. The London conferences of 1816–19 were the first to be planned, as part of British Foreign Secretary Castlereagh's efforts to internationalise abolition of the African slave trade, and they ultimately also took up interdiction of the Barbary corsairs of North Africa. The conferences established connections between these issues that are crucial to understanding European policies toward both abolition and the corsairs, and which reveal how these questions were matters of European – and African – security as well as of humanitarian intervention. As the Vienna settlement extended beyond Europe into the Atlantic and Islamic worlds, the projection of European power overseas to protect security of persons and property could at the same time bring violence in its wake.