ABSTRACT
The war in Europe was in full swing during March 1916, yet the Dutch member of the Rhine Commission and professor of law, Willem van Eysinga, could not disregard the fact that this year the Commission had its centenary. In a letter to his German colleagues he therefore proposed to compile a book with all international and national regulations concerning the navigation of the Rhine since 1803. This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book outlines the centrality of the concepts of security and prosperity, both as contemporary reflections and discursive practices, within this process of recalibration. It explores that the security-prosperity nexus, the mutual causal relationship between the organised anticipation of being unharmed in the future, on the one hand, and the organised anticipation of maintaining livelihood, on the other, is key in the study of the formation of a European security culture after 1815.
