1. The Basics

2. How it Began

3. The Beginning Why is this building, the Friedensaal, significant
to international relations?
Treaty of Westphalia (1648)
Ended 30 Years’ War

4. Treaty of Westphalia-1648 Sovereignty States System
3 things came out of the Treaty:
Sovereignty
States
System
Multipolar system
4+ power poles
Tried to balance power

5. Rise of Popular Sovereignty
Raison d’état (‘Requirements of the State’)
Divine Right of Kings
Challenges to raison d’état
‘Popular’ sovereignty
American, French Revolutions

6. European Domination Scientific & Technological Advances
Naval Technology
Guns & Gunpowder
Industrial Revolution
Need to expand
Colonialism & Imperialism
What are these?
Berlin Conference ( )
British domination

7. The Sun Never Sets

8. A Changing World World wars Cold War Decolonization Rise of China
U.S. v. S. U.
Bipolar system
Decolonization
Self-determination= independence
Rise of China
Globalization
Intangible
Tangible
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