Political Science · International Relations
UGC NET July 2016 Political Science
The modern state system with its territorial sovereignty came into existence first in Europe in the wake of the
ATreaty of Versailles
BCongress of Vienna
CTreaty of Westphalia ✓ Correct
DCongress of Berlin
Correct answer: (C) Treaty of Westphalia — The modern state system with territorial sovereignty first emerged in Europe in the wake of the Treaty of Westphalia.
Explanation
★The modern state system with territorial sovereignty first emerged in Europe in the wake of the Treaty of Westphalia.
★The Peace of Westphalia was a series of treaties signed in 1648 in the cities of Osnabruck and Munster.
★It ended the Thirty Years' War and the wider European wars of religion.
★It established the principle of state sovereignty over a defined territory.
★Before Westphalia states existed but were not fully sovereign, as their authority was restrained by the Roman Church and the Holy Roman Empire.
★It also entrenched inter-state diplomacy and the balance of power in Europe.
★The Treaty of Versailles (1919) instead ended the First World War.
★The Congress of Vienna (1815) reordered Europe after the Napoleonic Wars.
★The Westphalian model remains the foundation of the sovereign nation-state system.
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