18th & 19th Centuries

 

3 most important factors in development:

1)(1) Popular sovereignty
  • Raison d’etat (the divine right of kings)
  • American & French Revolutions
  • Collapse of dynasties
        Austria-Hungary
        Russia
        Ottoman Empire
        Germany
        China

 

2)(2) Westernization of international system

 

3)(3) Culmination of multipolar system