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Uma análise do Tratado de Kadesh (1300-1275 a. C.)

Abstract

This article brings a presentation on how international relations worked in Ancient Egypt, amid the government of Pharaoh Ramses II and the Amarnian System. The objective of the study is based on identifying in the Treaty of Kadesh the debut of a conventional system of treaties never before established. From the analysis of the aforementioned treaty, its effectiveness was revealed in terms of the consolidation of diplomatic relations between Egypt and Hatti, the two previously enemy states. In its methodology, it is a bibliographic review of the main articles, works and theses that approach the theme and of a qualitative nature. This research seeks to answer the following question: Is it possible to find in the Treaty of Kadesh the principle of international relations and International Law? At the end of the research, it was concluded that the Treaty of Kadesh started a conventional system of treaties already in antiquity, and that its clauses are extremely important in the evolution of Public International Law. In short, it was observed that there is an incipient neglect in the classical literature, regarding the importance of ancient treaties for the literature of International Law and the History of International Relations.