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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">mgimorusjirl</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Russian Journal of World Politics and Law of Nations</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Russian Journal of World Politics and Law of Nations</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2949-6322</issn><publisher><publisher-name>МГИМО МИД России</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.24833/RJWPLN-2022-1-2-175-185</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">mgimorusjirl-10</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>States and Individuals in IR: From Global Orders to Everyday Experiences</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>States and Individuals in IR: From Global Orders to Everyday Experiences</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Sacralization of Peace by the Choice of Dates for Concluding International Treaties within the Westphalian System</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title></trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Ivonina</surname><given-names>L. I.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Liudmila I. Ivonina – Dr. Sci. (History), Professor, Department of Universal History and International Relations</p><p>4, Przevalskogo Street, Smolensk, 214000</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">ivonins@rambler.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-1"><institution>Smolensk State University</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2022</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>04</day><month>01</month><year>2023</year></pub-date><volume>1</volume><issue>1-2</issue><fpage>175</fpage><lpage>185</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Ivonina L.I., 2023</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2023</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Ivonina L.I.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Ivonina L.I.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://polities.mgimo.ru/jour/article/view/10">https://polities.mgimo.ru/jour/article/view/10</self-uri><abstract><p>Issues of peace have always been important for historical science. However, in recent years, international historiography has started to pay attention to the symbolism and socio-cultural design of peace congresses. The symbolic power of “special days” – whether it is a Christian holiday or an event of exceptional signiﬁcance – allowed people of early Modernity to express their attitude to reality and power. An analysis of the choice of dates for concluding peace by adversarial states within the Westphalian system demonstrates three consistent options. The ﬁrst is signing a peace treaty on a Saturday, Sunday, or a Christian holiday. The most striking example of this option is the signing of the Peace of Westphalia itself (the treaties of Münster and Osnabrück on October 24, 1648), on a Saturday – the day before the second Sunday after Trinity. The second option involves a reference to an important event in the past. For example, the Peace in Passarowitz between the Holy Roman Empire and Porta (1718) and the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca between Russia and Turkey (1774) were signed on the same date – July 21, the date when Istanbul and Peter the Great signed the Treaty of the Pruth in 1711. Since the age of the Enlightenment, when the “Right to Peace” began to compete with the “Right to War” in political theories, the date of peace could be directly determined by the end of negotiations. Sometimes the conclusion of peace became a Christian holiday. Peter the Great decided to consecrate the day of the conclusion of the Nystad Peace Treaty by transferring the relics of the Holy Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky from Vladimir to the new Russian capital – St. Petersburg. The conclusion of peace in this case was used as a tool of social constructivism, implemented through modelling. The political idea was symbolically grounded in signiﬁcant historical or religious dates. 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