In this episode, Seungeun Lee speaks with Isaac Nakhimovsky about his new
book The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation
(Princeton, 2024).
The book challenges the prevailing view of the Holy Alliance as a
reactionary and illusory endeavor, as well as the idea of a linear
progression of liberalism in opposition to such deviations. Nakhimovsky
reconstructs the discourse around a liberal vision of a European
federation, where reformers and patriots from smaller European states, as
well as abolitionists beyond Europe, looked to Russia as the potential
guarantor of a peaceful order.
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