2008 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Das Westfälische System: Mythos oder Wirklichkeit?
Published in: Moderne, Staat und Internationale Politik
Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
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Leo Gross hat in einem Aufsatz zum 300. Jahrestag des Westfälischen Friedens den Vertrag als „the majestic portal which leads from the old into the new world“ bezeichnet.
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Viele andere Autoren haben auf die Zentralität des Westfälischen Friedens für die Ausbildung des modernen Staatensystems hingewiesen und ihn bisweilen gar als das „Grundgesetz der neuen Staatengesellschaft“ bezeichnet.
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Lynn Miller etwa schreibt: „Like all historical benchmarks, Westphalia is in some respects more a convenient reference point than a source of a fully formed new normative system. Some elements that characterize the modern world, separating us from the Middle Ages, were established well before 1648; others did not emerge until many years after. Still, the Peace of Westphalia created at least the foundations of a new European system — one that would not truly become a world system until the second half of the twentieth century — out of the ruins of the political structures and the idealized rationale for them that had existed more or less unchanged in Europe for the preceding thousand years.„
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