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Concert diplomacy first appears as an affirmation of continuity. Rare are the periods in contemporary history that managed to do away with the pretension of the great powers—or those that consider themselves such—to share the management of the world. This immutable law of diplomatic oligarchy dies hard, yet it does not belong to the realm of obvious fact.
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© 2012 Bertrand Badie and Éditions La Découverte
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Badie, B. (2012). Conclusion. In: Diplomacy of Connivance. The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137006431_11
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