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Sovereignty, International Relations, and the Westphalian Myth

Andreas Osiander · International Organization 55(2), 251–287 · 2001

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Type: Article
Author: Andreas Osiander
Identifier: DOI 10.1162/00208180151140577
Accessed: 2026-09-01

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DisputedThe view that the Peace of Westphalia (1648) founded the modern system of sovereign states is contested: Osiander argues that international relations judges current trends against an image of the 1648 settlement that is largely imaginary, a product of nineteenth- and twentieth-century fixation on sovereignty.