SPANISH-PORTUGUESE ATLANTIC SYSTEM AS A FIRST PERIOD AND SOURCES OF CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM, 1493-1648

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States engage with one another in an environment known as the international system which is considered as an important subfield of realist paradigm in international relations theory. Whilst foreign-policy making theories concentrates on actor and systemic level of analysis, international- system analysis is concerned with the structure of the system, the interactions between its unit, and their implications for peace and war, or cooperation and conflict, of the existence of different types of states. This article provide a distictinctive analysis of the first phases of contemporary international system, namely „Spanish-Portegese Atlantic System.‟ In defining the international system, this article also emphasizes interaction capacities of state in the system, significantly different from the mainstream theory of foreign policy making. We found that, international system is evolving, and set the power mechanism under the banner of European monarchies in this firs expansion period (149 0-1870) period. In order to have a better understanding of the international system, the article sets the world history a distinctive micro level analysis durıng the Age of Discovery. The article also emphasis on system-level unit into account; units of the international system to explain the roots of contemporary international system.

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international system , Spain , Portugal , Tordesillas Treaty , Alcacovas Treaty , power transition.

Journal Of Economics an‎d Administrative Sciences

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Journal Of Economics an‎d Administrative Sciences