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Thus, it was that the Westphalian settlement launched an international system of independent and territorially-conceived sovereign states, a system that acted based on common rules and established regular patterns of relationships. First and foremost, the Westphalia system paved the way for the formation of a structure that enabled all political actors within the scope of the system to participate in the conduct of the system itself. The primary actor of the Westphalian system became not the Catholic Church but the sovereign and legally equal state (Stirk, 2012, 644).