International Relations scholars view the wars of religion, mainly the Thirty Years’ War in Europe, and its subsequent resolution via the 1648 Peace Treaty of Westphalia as a vital watershed or milestone in the evolution of interstate relations and new Westphalian-type world order.
Discuss:
(a) why this is the case,
(b) what makes you agree or disagree with such conclusion, and
(c) how you see (or not) one of the principal results from the Westphalia Peace Conference and Treaty—the principle of sovereignty—evolved in beneficial or harmful ways in our contemporary or modern world order, specifically since the outbreak of the Great War in 1914.