Vienna 1815: introducing a European security culture / Beatrice de Graaf, Ido de Haan, Brian Vick -- Cultures of peace and security from the Vienna Congress to the 21st century: characteristics and dilemmas / Matthias Schulz -- Historicising a security culture: peace, security and the Vienna system in history and politics, 1815 to present / Eckart Conze -- The Congress of Vienna as a missed opportunity. conservative visions of a new European order after Napoleon / Matthijs Lok -- The Central Commission for Navigation of the Rhine. a first step towards European economic security? / Joep Schenk -- From the balance of power to a balance of diplomacy? peace and security in the Vienna settlement / Stella Ghervas -- The London ambassadors's conferences and beyond: abolition, barbary corsairs and multilateral security in the Congress of Vienna system / Brian Vick -- The allied machine. the conference of ministers in Paris and the management of security, 1815-1818 / Beatrice de Graaf -- The German Confederation: cornerstone of the new European security system / Wolf D. Gruner -- Constructing an international conspiracy. revolutionary concertation and police networks in the European restoration / Ido de Haan & Jeroen van Zanten -- Security and transnational policing of political subversion and international crime in the German Confederation after 1815 / Karl Härter -- The papacy, reform, and intervention: international collective security in restoration Italy / David Laven -- From Augarten to Algiers. securitising and 'piracy' around the Congress of Vienna / Erik de Lange -- Friedrich von Gentz and his Wallachian correspondents: security concerns in a southeastern European borderland (1812-1828) / Constantin Ardeleanu -- Diplomats as power brokers / Mark Jarrett -- Economic insecurity, 'securities' and a European security culture after the Napoleonic wars / Glenda Sluga