He also spoke about the current significance of the treaty ... the idea of national sovereignty that emerged after the Treaty of Westphalia which ended the Thirty Years' War.

But Westphalia did not create a secular order, and a secular order certainly did not precede the treaty. Westphalia was explicitly a Christian peace, which further imprinted an improved, mutually ...

Admittedly, much of the contemporary confusion over Westphalia starts with the confusing history of the treaty itself. At the risk of vastly oversimplifying, the Treaty of Westphalia transformed one ...