Goals of the Congress of Vienna (1814–1815)

The Congress aimed to restructure post-Napoleonic Europe:

1. Restore peace and stability after 23 years of war.
2. Redraw borders via legitimacy (restore monarchs), balance of power (prevent hegemony), and compensation (reward victors).
3. Create a durable peace settlement.
4. Establish the Concert of Europe—regular great-power consultation.
5. Suppress revolutionary/liberal movements.
6. Promote economic recovery and legitimate trade.
7. Contain France (buffer states) and check Russian expansion.
8. Encourage constitutional monarchies where feasible (limited).

It delivered nearly a century of general European peace (until 1914).