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Annotation How did the world come to be organized into sovereign states? Daniel Philpott argues that two historical revolutions in ideas are responsible. First, the Protestant Reformation ended medieval Christendom and brought a system of sovereign states in Europe, culminating at the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. Second, ideas of equality and colonial nationalism brought a sweeping end to colonial empires around 1960, spreading the sovereign states system to the rest of the globe. In both cases, revolutions in ideas about legitimate political authority profoundly altered the "constitution" that establishes basic authority in the international system. Ideas exercised influence first by shaping popular identities, then by exercising social power upon the elites who could bring about new international constitutions. Swaths of early modern Europeans, for instance, arrived at Protestant beliefs, then fought against the temporal powers of the Church on behalf of the sovereignty of secular princes, who could overthrow the formidable remains of a unified medieval Christendom. In the second revolution, colonial nationalists, domestic opponents of empire, and rival superpowers pressured Euro
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- Author
- Philpott, Daniel;
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691057477
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Political Science, Social Science
Other editions & translations
- Revolutions in Sovereignty : How Ideas Shaped Modern International Relations (2001)
- Revolutions in Sovereignty: How Ideas Shaped Modern International Relations (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics Book 92) (2010)
- Princeton Studies in International History and Politics : Revolutions in Sovereignty : How Ideas Shaped Modern International Relations (2001)
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