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Historial development:
The Peace of Westphalia (1648): is the name of two peace treaties signed in
1648, which put an end to the Thirty Years’ war in Europe, the Peace of
Westphalia announced the emergence of a new form of political organization in
Europe, one premised upon states’ essential independence from external
authority.
The Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries: The seventeenth to nineteenth
centuries confirmed the establishment In Europe of a system of international
law premised on the sovereign independence of states. Most of the
fundamental elements of that system, including the sources of the law, the
principal rights and obligations of states (particularly those reinforcing their
sovereignty), and Rules governing their various interactions, were established
during this Period
The First and Second World Wars:
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Political units governing their own internal affairs and having the
power to conclude treaties with or wage war against foreign powers,
effectively granting them most of the attributes of external
sovereignty had been conclusively established. It is this essentially
autonomous conception of the state that remains at the core of the
structure of international society, and hence international law, today