The Diplomatic Game Of European Powers Before Crimean War

Before the Crimean war, the Holy alliance maintaining the Vienna system trend to collapse,"Northern three palace"in action couldn't consistent, finally it was scapegoats. As"European police", Russia which plays the leading role on European business, tried to expand vigorously to the south and tried to annex the legacy of the Ottoman empire. it caused other countrys'panic such as British and Austria, so Russia's acting in a self-serving manner, caused itself isolated. Although the great nation union aimed at France was not replaced with alliance of powers aimed at Russia, but before the Crimean war it truly existed the tendency of the European powers to fight against Russia together. Russia had lost the whip hand in the European business and its international status droped greatly. Then France exploited the situation to allied with the British and made Russia to fall into diplomatic difficulties and cannot extricate himself, so France made itself a comeback and became the center of European diplomatic. Thus it produced the political upheavals called"diplomatic revolution"in the stage of European international relations, which led directly to the Crimean war and significant changes of international pattern.The Russian diplomacy's defeat and the French diplomacy's success, was not only due to the contradictions and conflicts between the British and Russia much more than that between the British and France, which caused France allied with the British; but also it lies in Russia swimming against the tide. When other European countries had entered the rapid development in the industrialization, Russia was still a savage backwardness state of the feudal serf system, its strength was far less than other countries such as British and France. The economic strength is the fundamental forces of a nation or a region to manage the international relations, yet Russia fell behind decayed, outwardly strong but inwardly weak, tried to carry forward to Balkan, the extremely sensitive region at that time, which caused the common objection of the powers, and its defeat was inevitable.Moreover, Russia reversed the trend of The Times. When capitalism was in the rapid development throughout Europe, Russia still maintained"holy alliance"and maintained rules of feudalism. Russia was inopportune and made a series of diplomatic misjudgment, Russia thought British and France were impossible to interfere with his diplomatic action and Austria of his allies would not betray him. In fact, Russia caused eventually isolated in diplomatic game in Europe against his expected. Just the second empire founded soon in France before the Crimean war, was not steady in the political situation and hadn't completely got rid of isolated shadow in the international, but tried hard to develop capitalist economy, so its National Day was booming trend. And French diplomatic policy was flexible and allied with the old rivals British, which helped her obtain the success finally. This shows, facing the complex international environment, a country must keep pace with The Times and complies with the development of the society tidal current, then it could remain the indefectible position.