Westphalia Has Failed Africa And Africa Has Failed Westphalia!
People belong to societies or social groups some of which are gender, ethnic, race, skills and status related. When nations were formed in Africa under a Westphalian model, most African social groups found themselves on different sides of borders. This division has had political, social and economic policy outcomes in Africa. But what is the background to the Westphalian model? What is good, bad and ugly about it ? Westphalia treaty has its historical roots in the Thirty Years War (1618−1648), that was concluded by the Peace Treaty of Westphalia in 1648. A state is a sovereign according to the Westphalia Treaty of 1684. Being at war for this long disrupted so much civility, law and order. It ushered in dissatisfaction, rebelliousness, brutality, repression, bitterness, severe hardships, deaths in the millions, famine, desolation, caused indescribable disarray, mayhem and plague. Westphalian Foundations influenced modern International Relations (IR), Gl...