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The 27 pages that link to Westphalian sovereignty, each with the reason it gives.

• SovereigntyBroader topic: It captures the familiar principle of sovereign equality between states.

• Thirty Years' WarRelated: The treaties are often linked to this idea, though historians dispute that simple origin story.

• Peace of WestphaliaRelated: This idea is commonly attributed to the treaties, though historians dispute that interpretation.

• Unitary stateRelated: The concept of a single sovereign state helps explain the unitary state's claim to ultimate central authority.

• MercenaryRelated: The consolidation of state authority gradually challenged independent military companies.

• Unequal treatiesCompared with: Unequal treaties sharply limited the sovereignty this principle describes.

• NationCompared with: State sovereignty offers a territorial framework that national movements may claim, challenge, or seek to control.

• Tributary systemCompared with: Its ideal of formally equal sovereign states differs from tributary hierarchy.

• Christian nationalismRelated: The nation-state gives Christian nationalist projects a political unit to identify with the faith.

• Religious nationalismRelated: Modern sovereignty created a framework in which religious identity could be tied to territorial statehood.

• Early modern periodRelated: It is often associated with the changing European state system, though its link to the 1648 treaties is debated.

• Sphere of influenceCompared with: The concept highlights the tension between legal equality and unequal practical influence.

• IntergovernmentalismRelated: This principle supplies a historical foundation for state-controlled international cooperation.

• Treaty of MünsterRelated: Recognition of Dutch independence is often linked to this account of sovereign statehood.

• SinocentrismCompared with: It contrasts with hierarchical relations that assigned unequal standing to China and neighboring polities.

• Mandala (Southeast Asian political model)Compared with: Its bounded sovereignty differs from the mandala’s layered claims and shifting allegiances.

• Non-interventionismRelated: Non-interventionism treats other states’ domestic authority as a reason to refrain from interference.

• Established churchRelated: Territorial state authority helped make national control of churches politically durable.

• Sovereign stateRelated: It captures the territorial independence commonly associated with sovereign statehood.

• Tributary system of ChinaCompared with: It contrasts with tributary relations, where diplomatic status was expressed through ranked court ritual.

• Early modern warfareRelated: The settlement ending the Thirty Years' War became associated with changing ideas of political authority.

• TolerationRelated: The 1648 settlements helped strengthen territorial rule over religious arrangements.

• Jean BodinRelated: Bodin’s account helped shape later ideas of supreme political authority, though it predates the Westphalian settlement.

• TianxiaCompared with: It contrasts with Tianxia’s ideal of an encompassing order beyond separate sovereign states.

• Religious warRelated: The settlement of European religious wars is often connected to this account of state sovereignty.

• Political globalizationCompared with: Political globalization strains this model as institutions and decisions increasingly cross territorial boundaries.

• Reformation studiesRelated: Debates over religion and political authority influenced later accounts of European state sovereignty.