title: The Specific Features of the System History of the International Relations and World Politics
abstract: The article considers the specific features of the system approach to the history of international relations and world politics. International relations are viewed as a single complex organism, which is greater than the sum of its parts. The freedom of actions of the states is limited by the frames of the system of international relations, the part of which they are. Each system has its spatial and temporal characteristics. In the period of the Early Modern Age the process of formation of the na
journal: Post-Soviet Issues