The Peace of Utrecht inaugurated an age of commercial and colonial rivalry by express recognition of the principle of the balance of power. The Treaty of Vienna sought to establish a concert of ...

The balance of power was enshrined in the Peace of Utrecht (1713). As a system, it was based on war, which it regarded as a mechanism for settling disputes and keeping the balance. The federal model, ...

The events of the Peace of Utrecht (1713) sanctioned the decades-long project, the Duchy had pursued through the convoluted maze of political relationships between foreign powers. Of these, the ...