During these centuries, the political problem in Western European thought was the problem of power, not the problem of the state. What you see, whether it is at the national or international level within the limits of national law or public international law, as the case may be, and the limits of the sovereignty of other countries, where it began with absolute freedom from all restrictions, to end at the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century derogating and restricted in favor of peoples at the national level For the sake of international regulation at the global level.