The rise of nationalism may have made it harder for European powers to cut up countries like cheese, but leaders including Bismarck came to adapt in part by __________

a. making nationalistic appeals in an instrumental fashion to accomplish the same goals
b. effectively keeping nationalism at bay through containment policies developed through the “concert” systems
c. accepting domestic interventions in order to keep destabilizing regimes from being established
d. providing more territorial compensation to areas that were taken for balance-of-power reasons

Answer: C