PSC 3315 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Protestant Union, Confessionalization, General Order
22 Feb 2016
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Terms/ideas and quotes: identify author and text, provide analysis of quote"s meaning in our class"s context. A big step in achieving international order. Westphalia sets up a respect for differences (many different value systems still around) Development of westphalian state system: recognition of sovereignty, territories and boundaries of individual states, a general order roughly bound by accepted international norms. Confessional internationalism: counter reformation, protestant union. Council of trent, jesuits, catholic league of princes. The establishment of denominations, branching off as both sides realize that they don"t fit with each other: context: protestants and catholics (two very different faiths) Protestant princes trying to figure out how to break away without losing all benefits: seek new hierarchy, new basis for authority. Role of religion in the formation of the westphalian state system. Made people reconsider where authority comes from (politics or religion) War over balance of power (war of spanish succession)
