Sept. 11 wrought the final demise of the Westphalian state-centric system that had dominated international politics since 1648.

"The Westphalian state system will crumble, and the world will slip into a New Dark Age presaged by fragmented political authority, overlapping jurisdictions, fluid territorial boundaries, group ...

The modern international system is characterized by a robust framework of international law, institutions, and norms, which did not exist in the pre-Westphalian era.

The centuries-old Westphalian state system has never resolved the tension between the principle of the sovereign equality of states and the idea that great powers enjoy certain privileges and bear ...

What’s more, for members of a supposedly secular state system, they were remarkably quick to fall back on religious justifications for doing so. By ignoring this history, the idea of the Westphalian ...

This short, dense work by a professor of international relations is a serious meditation on an important subject: the migration of important security functions from the state to private organizations.

The Westphalian model certainly has its limitations — both as a system in itself and in its ability to accurately describe the current state of the international system.

The Islamic State's ideology puts it fundamentally at odds with the norms of Westphalian sovereignty that have developed in the international system over the past three centuries.

TEHRAN - A professor of political science at Georgetown University rejects the view by Henry Kissinger that the basics of the Westphalian state system are no longer valid, saying extremists groups ...