The Results of the War of the Augsburg Leagueand Representation of the Peace of Ryswick 1697

From the perspective of a systematic approach and the method of event analysis, the author of the article set a goal to consider the international and legal significance of the congress in Ryswick in 1697, which summed up the results of the War of the Augsburg League (1688–1697), and to show its role in the broadcast of subsequent international forums. Based on the analysis of the results of the war and peace treaties, the following conclusions were drawn. The Ryswick agreements were of a phased nature. France, against which almost all of Europe opposed, gained nothing, but the coalition of European states failed to return this state back to its borders. However, for the first time since the beginning of the Louis XIV’s European wars, the international situation swung towards balance. Despite the fact that the congress in Ryswick did not resolve all the pressing problems, it prepared the international and legal basis for further diplomatic discussions at the congresses in Utrecht (1713) and Rastatt (1714), which for the first time recorded the metaphor of the «balance of power» in international law. Finally, after the conclusion of the Peace of Ryswick, Europeans began to regularly receive information about wars, negotiations, meetings of monarchs and diplomats, and dynastic alliances in special international publications.