The centrality of this event in scholarship is attributable to Leo Gross, who traced its legacy in a 1948 article that heralded it as a “majestic portal.” A 2014 book that follows its author’s On China analyzes the intellectual consequences of this event as a “world order” that contests with systems like American democratic idealism. The 1997 Asian financial crisis exemplifies one of the many financial, ecological, and social deficiencies of this event that led (*) Susan Strange to coin a portmanteau of it and “failure.” The UN-endorsed “responsibility to protect” challenges a system named for this event, which rejects the existence of supranational authority. For 10 points, international relations scholars attribute the system in which states maintain exclusive sovereignty over their territories to what 1648 agreement? ■END■
ANSWER: Peace of Westphalia [or Treaty of Westphalia; accept Westphalian system; accept answers mentioning the signing or ratification of the Peace of Westphalia; prompt on Westfailure] (The book in the second line is Henry Kissinger’s World Order.)
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