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... humanity, with the spread ofthe Gregorian calendar andthe heliocentric idea ofthe world The ‘incipient phase’ began in the mid-eighteenth century and ended in the 1870s The concept ofthe unitary ... andthe proper domain ofthe United Nations Many commentators write ofthe decline ofthe nation-state, in the face ofthe transference of national sovereignty to such structures as the UN, the ... Formation and Reformation 113 16 Territorial law andthe rise ofthe state 6.1 The birth ofthe state 6.2 Legal diversity and universality in the emerging European states 6.3 The decline ofthe Christian...