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

Year 2020, Volume: 2 Issue: 1, 56 - 74, 30.06.2020

Konstantinos Travlos

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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