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Sovereign States (Westphalia)
The Peace of Westphalia (1648) ends the Thirty Years' War and becomes the symbol of a system of equal sovereign states.
Open in the interactive tree →The treaties of Münster and Osnabrück settled religious war in the Holy Roman Empire and confirmed the rulers' territorial sovereignty. The later idea of equal states that deal with each other by treaty and diplomacy is the base of international law and of the UN.
Prerequisites
- State & Administration~3000 BC
- Codified Law~1754 BC
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- Geneva Conventions & Red Cross1864
- League of Nations1920
- United Nations1945The UN rests on the equal sovereignty of states, a principle linked to 1648
- European Integration1951