 Peripheral or non-vital are interests which a state is willing to compromise.For example, in the German annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938 (a part of Czechoslovakia) under the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia was willing to relinquish territory which was considered ethnically German in order to preserve its own integrity and sovereignty.In the 21st century, the status-quo of the international system is no longer monopolized by states alone.