Governing The World Av Mark Mazower

<p><b><i>The compelling and provocative history of world government, from acclaimed author Mark Mazower</i></b><br><br><b>Shortlisted for the RUSI 2013 Duke of Wellington Medal for Military Literature</b><br><br>In 1815 the shocked and exhausted victors of the decades of fighting that had engulfed Europe for a generation agreed to a new system for keeping the peace. Instead of independent states changing sides, doing deals and betraying one another, a new, collegial ''Concert of Europe'' would ensure that the brutal chaos of the Napoleonic Wars never happened again.<br><br>Mark Mazower''s remarkable new book recreates two centuries of international government - the struggle to spread values and build institutions to bring order to an anarchic and dangerous state system.</p>