Aspecte ale securităţii generale în proiectele de instaurare a păcii eterne în Europa sec. XIV-XIX
Aspects of General Security Within the Projects of Establishing Eternal Peace in Europe, 16th-19th Centuries

Summary/Abstract: ABSTRACT: Aspects of General Security Within the Projects of Establishing Eternal Peace in Europe, 16th-19th Centuries. Appeared at the dawn of history, the question of war and peace drew the attention of the enlightened spirits of the epoch as early as the birth of the state-nation in Europe. Facing the rise of the state-nation on the European political stage, the failure of the papal Res Publicae Christiana project generated an intellectual movement that militated for the establishment of peace on the continent. The results of this movement - sporadic, at the beginning, more and more active and coherent, to the 19th century - took shape in a range of projects aiming at giving up war as means of maintaining national interests, and establishing peace by limiting the national sovereignty, considered as a main source of the European conflicts. Divided into two periods, the series of eternal peace establishing projects was ceaselessly carried on during centuries, which proved the constant concern of the European intellectuals in the pacification of the continent. The first period, the most consistent as regards the devising of the mechanisms which could insure the security of the European countries by setting up a supra-national organism, for settling and mediating the conflicts between states, comprised the 16th-19th centuries, and was grounded in the idea of a general alliance of the European princes. The second period, developed under the sign of the French Revolution and the ideas of democracy and liberalism, proved less interested in the mechanisms of general European security, and lasted from the French Revolution to World War I.

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