You are not signed in
Sign in | Become a Member | Contact Us
You are not signed in
Sign in | Become a Member | Contact Us
The origins of today's international system of sovereign independent nation states are said to lie in the Peace of Westphalia, which brought an end to the Thirty Years War in Europe in 1648. But commentators and politicians have been queueing up to claim that the days of the "Westphalian System" are numbered. Meanwhile academics debate whether the modern nation state owes anything to Westphalia at all.
Democracy is not for everyone
22 Oct 2009
The future of parliamentary democracy in Britain
15 Jun 2009
The United Nations is terminally paralysed
22 Jan 2009
The Congress of Vienna solved nothing and led straight to World War I
20 Apr 2010
The Second World War was the consequence of the Treaty of Versailles
15 Feb 2010
“What hope for the economy?”, featuring Anatole Kaletsky and Gideon Rachman, chaired by Evan Davis, 7th Feb 2012
Buy tickets
"The best chance for peace between Israel and Palestine is for Uncle Sam to butt out”, featuring William Sieghart, 27th Feb 2012
Buy tickets
Rising star historian Faramerz Dabhoiwala on the origins of sex and how the permissive society arrived in Western Europe, 15th Feb
Buy tickets
IQ² GLOBAL
USA
Asia
Australia
Ukraine
Greece
Copyright 2011 Intelligence 2 Ltd | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | User Guidelines | Goodies | FAQs
user comments
Interesting. Who would have thought a french academic would support dirigist policies to replace liberal free markets? A peace centered on Russia, Germany and France? Russia's entire history is based on the principle of keeping everyone out while trying to influence beyond its borders. Such an axis is a variation of a French revolutionary dream and itself an internationalist expression of a nationalist vision. Very post-structuralist!