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| | The concept of "'''world order'''" refers to the prevailing international system of governance, power dynamics, and global relations, which is currently shifting towards a [[multipolar]] structure with significant implications for global stability and governance. | | The concept of "'''world order'''" refers to the prevailing international system of governance, power dynamics, and global relations, which is currently shifting towards a [[multipolar]] structure with significant implications for global stability and governance. |
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| | + | ==Congress of Vienna (1815 - 1914)== |
| | + | After the final defeat of [[Napoleon]] in 1815, the [[Congress of Vienna]] reconstituted order in [[Europe]] by reintegrating [[France] into its councils of governance. The so-called [[Concert of Europe]] established a [[balance of power]] system that prevented any single power from dominating the European subcontinent. But as the 19th century proceeded, outside Europe, [[Britain]] emerged as the undisputed global [[hegemon]]. |
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| | + | A British viceroy ruled [[India]]. Europeans divided the rest of the world between them. Britain, France, [[Germany]], and [[Russia]] sliced [[China]] into [[spheres of influence]]. |
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| | + | [[Belgium]], Britain, France, Germany, [[Italy]], [[Portugal]], and [[Spain]] apportioned [[Africa]] between them, leaving only [[Ethiopia]] and [[Liberia]] independent. |
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| | + | In [[West Asia]], only the Arabian Peninsula, and in [[East Asia]], only [[Japan]] remained completely [[independent]]. Japan soon emulated Europe’s [[imperialist]] powers by building its own overseas empire, seizing the Chinese province of [[Taiwan]] in 1895, subjugating the Empire of [[Korea]] in 1905, and annexing it in 1910. |
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