... can be done to it by other states or by other foreign non-state actors."" According to this definition, after the Second World War the main threat to international security was identified with the interstate-armed conflicts in the traditional military sense. This concept was underlined also ... in the Preamble of the Charter we can read that one of its main objective is to "save succeeding generations from the scourge of war ", considered the main risk for the interstate security. Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World (2012), explains that the concept of security ... started to...

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... subordination and dependence, such as the Italian city-states and the Holy Roman Empire. It was the Peace Treaties of Westphalia of 1648 at the end of the Thirty Years' War which marked the birth of the state system and acknowledged the individual sovereignty of the empire's states (Schreuer, 1999; p1). After the Peace of Westphalia, two legal rules of " ... & Perration, 1999; pp38). Colonialism was also a part of this movement. The European political structure was retained in some countries in Asia and Africa after the decolonisation. Since the Second World War, the sovereign state as ...

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... such strong countervailing effects on nationalism. Although nationalism still persists, the countervailing effect of rapid transformation globalization is quite obvious.Globalization challenges the sovereignty of the nation state. After the cold war, the rapid development of globalization has greatly promoted the level of economic and cultural exchanges and interdependence between countries and regions, constantly transcending the boundaries of the original nation, thus ... of preserving their own cultural identity. In fact, flaring nationalism is not new in China, it has been set off i...

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... in the provision of an array of data delineating the differential power capabilities of great powers over a period of time . Using the historical periods of the "Pax Britannica" and the Cold War as examples, it has been demonstrated that the current distribution of capabilities differ from the multi-polar and bi-polar systems evident in the two respective time frames. The United ... ...

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