International-Political Consequences and Frontiers of the Thirty Years War (1618-1648): Historical, Diplomatic and Institutional Discourses

Abstract

The Thirty Years War (1618-1648) as a important historical event for political and diplomatic and institutional development of Europe is analized at the article. The attention paid to the diplomatic tools, national specifics and peculiarities of negotiations on the Congress of European countries. Results of the Congress of Westphal served as an important stimulus for the further socio-economic, security, political and diplomatic European development. Practical achievements of the Congress of Westphal and the experience gained by European diplomacy of the late XVIII – early XIX century determined the future institutional development of world diplomacy, foreign policy and international law, not losing its relevance for today.

At the turn of the Middle Ages and early modern times there is an objective process driven by the launch of the institutional design of foreign policy and diplomatic services of the leading countries in Europe. Accordingly, there is the relationship between the original concepts and priorities: «Europe», «identity», «humanity», «foreign policy» and «diplomacy», «war» and «peace» and so on. To that issues related to contemporary and evaluation for various state-legal forms and types of government, institutional political processes, characteristics of reality and ideals create tasks and in covering practice power models diplomacy, diplomacy institutions, humanistic traditions of diplomatic tools and more.
The article deals with the analysis of the foreign policy and diplomacy of the European states of the Middle Ages. Particular attention is given to the institutional development of public and political opinion as well as to the institutional and diplomatic practices in Europe.

Particular attention is paid to the institutional development of the diplomatic services, the diplomatic tools, standards of the protocol, the etiquette and the ceremony of the leading countries in Europe. The directions of the evolution of the theory and practice of diplomacy in historical perspective.

The professional demands to the diplomats and government employees, who are engaged in the foreign policy in the context of particular historical period of their activities and continuity of diplomatic practice, are analyzed.