Sovereignty Redefined
The concept of Westphalian sovereignty revolutionized the notion of nation states by establishing clear borders and governance within those borders. Before this pivotal moment, sovereignty was a tangled web of overlapping allegiances and claims, often complicated by hereditary rights and the influence of the Catholic Church. The treaties that emerged from the Peace of Westphalia fundamentally shifted the balance of power, allowing countries to govern themselves independently and marking the birth of the modern international order.In this clip
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