ABSTRACT
The Congress of Berlin had been called in order to avert a real danger of war between several Great Powers, and the treaties which emerged from the Congress had been carefully negotiated between them all. As will be seen in the next chapter, many of the arrangements governed by those treaties were very short-lived. Yet this general neglect of the Berlin arrangements did not produce a great increase in international tensions, and perhaps war, as might have been anticipated. The Great Powers were largely preoccupied elsewhere.
