How states cooperate in the absence of a sovereign power is a
perennial question in international relations. With Power in
Concert, Jennifer Mitzen argues that global governance is more than
just the cooperation of states under anarchy: it is the formation
and maintenance of collective intentions, or joint commitments
among states to address problems together. The key mechanism
through which these intentions are sustained is face-to-face
diplomacy, which keeps states' obligations to one another salient
and helps them solve problems on a day-to-day basis. Mitzen argues
that the origins of this practice lie in the Concert of Europe, an
informal agreement among five European states in the wake of the
Napoleonic wars to reduce the possibility of recurrence. The
Concert first institutionalized the practice of jointly managing
the balance of power, through its many successes, and Mitzen shows
that the words and actions of state leaders in public forums
contributed to collective self-restraint and a shared commitment to
problem solving-and at a time when communication was considerably
more difficult than it is today. Despite the Concert's eventual
breakdown, the practice it introduced-of face-to-face diplomacy as
a mode of joint problem solving-survived and is the basis of global
governance today.
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