Question: Why did the League of the Three Emperors fail? European Politics in the Nineteenth Century: Otto von Bismarck, chancellor of Germany, engineered an alliance between Germany, Russia,.
Reinsurance Treaty, (June 18, 1887), a secret agreement between and arranged by the German chancellor after the German-Austrian-Russian, or Three Emperors’ League, collapsed in 1887 because of competition between and Russia for spheres of influence in the. The provided that each party would remain neutral if the other became involved in a war with a third great power and that this would not apply if Germany attacked or if Russia attacked Austria. Bismarck showed the Russian ambassador the text of the German-Austrian alliance of 1879 to drive home the last point. Germany paid for Russian friendship by agreeing to the Russian in and (now part of southern Bulgaria) and by agreeing to support Russian action to keep the as its own preserve.
When the treaty was not renewed in 1890, a rapidly began to take shape.