States and the international system as we know them in the present day found their origins in the mid-seventeenth century.

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The modern state system and the international system as we know them today largely originated with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, which ended the Thirty Years' War in Europe and is often considered the beginning of the state system based on sovereign states.

States and the International System as We Know Them in the Present