“By Consent and Management”: Aversion to war, innovative thinking and managerial coordination at Utrecht 1713 and Vienna 1815

Authors : Konstantinos TRAVLOS

Pages : 56-74

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Publication Date : 2020-06-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Following the logic of discovery, I conduct a comparative descriptive analysis of the decision makers who negotiated the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713 and the Final Act of the Congress of Vienna of 1815. The goal is to establish the facts of the two cases concerning indicators of war-weariness and fear of the radical potential of war as motivations for engaging in the negotiations, and of innovative thinking about international relations as reaction to those motivations. These facts are associated with the presence of the practice of managerial coordination among the major powers after Vienna, and its absence after Utrecht. The comparative descriptive analysis leads to four theoretical propositions that can be used to build hypotheses, for future evaluation according to the logic of confirmation.
Keywords : Managerial Coordination, War, Congress of Vienna, Treaty of Ultrecht, International Order

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