The most significant differences between modern nation states
and earlier forms of political community ?
A watershed in International Relations occurred when the Westphalia Treaties came into being in 1648, marking the end of the Thirty Years war in Europe. The Peace of Westphalia is perhaps the most important benchmark in the formation of the modern territorial state' (Opello & Rosow 1999 ch4 pp70). These treaties brought about a new framework for inter-state relations within Europe, which brought with it a semblance of law and order which was recognized and acknowledged by all European states, the multinational treaties of Westphalia,-----came to be known as the public law of Europe' (Hinsley 1967 pp168). Thus an improved degree of stability and legitimacy became apparent in Europe and in time the primary consequences of the Westphalia Treaties, state sovereignty, precisely defined state territorial boundaries, and diminished religious dogmatism came to be accepted by......
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