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Beatrice de Graaf argued that the “machine” run by one of these things fostered “security culture” after it superseded one dismissed as a “loud-sounding nothing.” Henry Kissinger’s thesis, A World Restored, claims that restraining these things maximized the “freedom of action” sought by Count Stadion’s successor. During the Vormärz (“FOR-mairts”) period, one of these things could forcibly return revolutionary members to its “bosom” under a “preliminary protocol” drafted by Ioannis Kapodistrias (“cap-oh-DISS-tree-uss”) at Troppau. A “secret protocol” let one of these things militarize the Wellington Barrier after its (-5[1])renewal at Aix-La-Chapelle (“ECKS la shah-PELL”) in (-5[1])1818. The 18th-century instability (10[1])of these things (-5[1])was dubbed the “stately (10[1])quadrille (10[4])(“kwah-DRILL”).” The “concert (10[2])system” (10[3])managed (10[2])“Holy” and “Quadruple” (10[2])ones (10[2])comprising (10[3])the great (10[1])powers. (10[1])For 10 points, England reversed what type of relations in the Diplomatic Revolution? ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: alliances [or ally, allies, allied powers, or “Allied Machine”; accept coalitions or leagues or ententes; accept Holy Alliance or Triple Alliance; prompt on Congress of Vienna, Wiener Kongress, Concert of Europe, or conventions by asking “what sort of group did it establish?”; prompt on great powers or states or similar by asking “organized into what sort of group?”; prompt on international relations or diplomatic contingents until each is read]
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