deep sinking feeling in my chest as I come to realize I might have to research/write a genealogy of "westphalianism" before I can begin to focus on bigger macrohistorical things at all
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westphalianism is fake! a retcon!! the treaties are almost entirely devoted to settling business with regards to the hierarchy and constitution of the empire
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the core ideas seem to emerge from the morass of the enlightenment and then much later a tidy origin story was crafted by international relations theory
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so now whenever I read anything modern on the topic I have that eerie glasses billboard meme feeling and can't rest until I get to the bottom of this
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