Acknowledgements Introduction: Utopia, History and Teleology: The Bicentenary European Search for a Political Economy for Welfare and Warfare, and Struggle with Nationalism and Democracy 1. The Vienna Peace Utopia of 1815 and the World of Trade 2. Welfare: The Dissolution of the Vienna Peace Utopia from Within 3.Warfare: The Dissolution of the Vienna Peace Utopia from Without 4. Versailles: the Utopia of Peace through Democracy 5. The Great Depression and the Collapse of the World Order 6. After World War II: From the Utopia of Peace for the Cold War to the Euro-Crisis and the Search for a New Narrative Epilogue: The Bicentenary European Struggle with Nationalism and Democracy, and Search for a Global Political Economy Bibliography Index

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