What it says on the tin. In our time line, as you know, a series of ad hoc Congresses/Conventions were called from 1815 until ca. 1914 to resolve various disputes between the great powers and issue agreements on things like the treatment of wounded soldiers. Would it have been possible for a standing body to have existed, something like the League of Nations, to have been created? Could this have averted the great war?
Is a standing Western "Congress" (proto-League of Nations) possible in 19th C?
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The POD for this would be the Congress of Vienna after the end of the Napoleonic Wars, but it wouldn’t be like the UN or the League of Nations. It would be dominated by Britain and be thoroughly monarchist in character and outlook.
Right. I’m not looking for an internationalist liberal organization, just any standing body in general. Sort of like a permanent forum of arbitration between the great powers