Congress of Vienna

Ved Pant

sykes@worldmun.org

Ved Pant is a sophomore in Mather House from Mumbai concentrating in Applied Mathematics and Economics. Besides WorldMUN, Ved is involved with Harvard’s consulting group, intercollegiate Model UN team, and club cricket team on campus. As a former WorldMUN Assistant Director, he is very excited to return to the conference and meet all of you!

Topic: 1814-1815 Congress of Vienna

As early as 1774, the impending collapse of the Ottoman Empire became clear to the Concert of Europe. The sheer scale of such a collapse, right in Europe’s backyard, was a major threat to their newly achieved, delicate balance of power. Accordingly, through the 18th and 19th century, Europe’s major powers begged the classical Eastern Question: How can the growing power imbalance between Europe and the Ottomans be addressed? What can the major European powers do to keep one another in check when Ottoman territorial gains would become easy to seize? To protect their interests, by 1916, the Triple Entente —the Russian Empire, the United Kingdom, and the French Third Republic — divided the moribund Ottoman Empire to protect their interests in the Black Sea, Mediterranean and Levant respectively. The Concert of Europe at WorldMUN 2025 will give delegates the chance to reexamine this inflection point in the history of the Middle East and Eurasia, and revisit the crucial secret discussions that set the fate of the region for decades to follow.