The Contribution of the Westphalia Treaties on the Emergence of the Modern State Model

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The writer looks at the treaties of Westphalia signed at Osnabruck and Munster in 1648 and discusses the extent to which these may be seen as a critical stage of development that led to the current modern state structure looking at the way political philosophies were developing at the time the treaties were signed and the way in which the basic concepts are found within modern global politics. Seventeen sources are cited in the bibliography of this fifteen page paper.