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The document introduces international law and discusses its origins in the 1648 Peace of Westphalia treaties that ended the Thirty Years War in Europe. [1] The treaties established the equal sovereignty of states over their own territories without a higher authority, replacing hierarchies between empires and the Pope. [2] This model of horizontal and decentralized international law based on equal sovereignty between self-governing states remains the foundation of international law today as seen in the UN Ch

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