POLI 212 Chapter Notes -Casus Belli
17 Dec 2014
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From other states came not the threat of interfering with one"s governance, but of capturing one"s territory, defeating one"s armies, sapping one"s wealth. New logic of necessity prevailed, by which the interests of states became preserving their territory, their armies, and their treasure. Together, states formed a whole systems of states, attacking, defending, and balancing, a system where the only universally agreed upon law is that states have an equal right not to be hindered in their internal affairs. Tradition of realism provides an enduring portrait. Westphalia largely the outworking of the protestant reformation. Westphalia the origin of the sovereign states system. Westphalia the majestic portal which leads from the old world into the new world. - leo. His contention: before 1648, as long as the thirty years" war was still smoldering, significant features of political authority in europe were incompatible with sovereign statehood; afterward, sovereignty prevailed.
