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The end of the short peace in 1803 featured a territorial revolution in Germany were a lot of the small states were consolidated into the medium and larger German powers called the Imperial Recess. Schroeder spins it as an attempt to save the German constitution which is I could imagine that would support such sweeping change. He takes some extra time here to add to his Bonaparte as boogieman theory rather justly.

Napoleon in the driver’s seat, Russian overextension and the assassination of Paul, Amiens being an average 18th century treaty with Bonaparte as the prime reason for its short duration.

Schroeder stressed that the old international order was still in play and even that there weren’t solid ideas for something new during the First Coalition.

The proto-concert attempt at restraint from Leopold II.

Was Austria ever not in serious foreign trouble? I'm not sure that the real threat to the international system was the loose, traditional character of the ancien regime and not the revolutionary impulse but good arguments were made especially about the deterioration of the system by the big powers. Need to find out more about the Imperial German concept of Landeshoheit.

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Was Austria ever not in serious foreign trouble? I'm not sure that the real threat to the international system was the loose, traditional character of the ancien regime and not the revolutionary impulse but good arguments were made especially about the deteriation of the system by the big powers. The example given is basically centralized France verses weak German states which certainly pre-dates the revolu

Making the case that the French Revolution
wasn't the only major cause of the wars of the Napoleonic era by sketching out the inherent instability of the balance of power system of the 1763-1789 period by pointing out the crumbling of the Austro-French alliance and the failure of a Russo-British one forming despite common interests.