While Wilhelm may have been the king, it was Bismarck who was in control, manipulating the king with his intellect while using royal decrees to circumvent the power of elected officials. ... Prussia attacked Denmark and secured the two German-speaking territories of Schleswig and Holstein, resolved the Schleswig-Holstein question by annexing Schleswig and giving Holstein to the Austrian empire, ensuring a future quarrel that will knock Austria out of German politics once and for all, very crucial at the time as the Habsburg dynasty still retained prestige and power amongst the German states. ....

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Focusing more towards the interdependence of nation state and empire, is found in post Congress of Vienna, where the interdependence between empires and monarchies, illustrates the tensions that were also present once the expanding beliefs of nationhood were becoming evident. ... Of those who signed the manifest included Emperor Franz I of Austria, Tsar Alexander I and King Freidrich Wilhelm III of Prussia (Strath and Koskenniemi 2009, p. 3). ... These movements accounted for the tensions of the vision of rising nation states, but also the interdependence that was occurring between the peopl...

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