Near the end of the twentieth century, the so-called right to intervene (later recast as the responsibility to protect) emerged in international diplomacy in connection with humanitarian relief. But it had started out, in the years after 1815, as an instrument of counter-revolution that the representatives of Austria, Russia and Prussia agreed might be needed to preserve the peace.
M. Mazower, The Greek Revolution (2021), 398
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