Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change
by
Daniel H. Nexon
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Scholars have long argued over whether the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, which ended more than a century of religious conflict arising from the Protestant Reformations, inaugurated the modern sovereign-state system. But they largely ignore a more fundamental question: why did the emergence of new forms...