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Great Power Loneliness: Reflections on the 160th Bergedorf Roundtable

... China Sea. Behind most of the rational approaches to global politics today there is a firm belief that statehood is better than statelessness, because only with a monopoly on violence can order be maintained at a given piece of land. This is why the Westphalian system is certainly here to stay. An amazing majority of both Asian and European participants were explicit about this position, not expecting any substantial challenge to state sovereignty as a central concept in world order. Not the common ...

03.11.2015

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Rules of victory for future international conflicts

... relations have never been conflict-free. Therefore, if international relations are to survive into the future, international conflicts appear inevitable. The homeostatic stability and vitality of the state-centric international system, known as the Westphalian system, are confirmed by both political practice and theory [1] . This allows us to look into the future as far as 2148, the year that will mark the Peace of Westphalia’s 500th anniversary. The selected date will help future colleagues ...

07.02.2013

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