The crucially important point to make here, at the outset, is that the Cobdenist liberal international order never had a Plan B.
Nationalism was one of the big bugaboos it was ostensibly running from. Imperialism was another.
This was the story that was told.
Even this was, in many ways, a faux story, designed to further international financial and commercial interests over other interests within the countries and empires of Europe.
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