Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe
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Castile (historical region)
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Charles V
Collective action
Confessionalization
Counter-Reformation
De facto
Dutch Revolt
Dynasty
Early modern Europe
Early modern period
Edict
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Foreign policy
French Wars of Religion
German Prince
Governance
Habsburg Spain
Hegemony
Heresy
Holy Roman Emperor
Holy Roman Empire
House of Habsburg
Huguenot
Ideology
Imperialism
Informal empire
Institution
International relations
King of the Romans
Magnate
Monarchy of Spain
Morisco
Nation state
Nobility
Patronage
Peace of Augsburg
Peace of Westphalia
Persecution
Philip II of Spain
Political organization
Political science
Political structure
Politics
Polity
Principality
Protestantism
Pundit
Religion
Religious war
Rhetoric
Ruler
Schmalkaldic War
Self-determination
Sensibility
Social science
Sovereign state
Sovereignty
State (polity)
State formation
Supporter
Swabian League
Tax
The Other Hand
Thirty Years' War
Toleration
War
Warfare
Westphalian sovereignty
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- ISBN 9780691137933
- Weight: 567g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 20 Apr 2009
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Scholars have long argued over whether the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, which ended more than a century of religious conflict arising from the Protestant Reformations, inaugurated the modern sovereign-state system. But they largely ignore a more fundamental question: why did the emergence of new forms of religious heterodoxy during the Reformations spark such violent upheaval and nearly topple the old political order? In this book, Daniel Nexon demonstrates that the answer lies in understanding how the mobilization of transnational religious movements intersects with--and can destabilize--imperial forms of rule. Taking a fresh look at the pivotal events of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries--including the Schmalkaldic War, the Dutch Revolt, and the Thirty Years' War--Nexon argues that early modern "composite" political communities had more in common with empires than with modern states, and introduces a theory of imperial dynamics that explains how religious movements altered Europe's balance of power.
He shows how the Reformations gave rise to crosscutting religious networks that undermined the ability of early modern European rulers to divide and contain local resistance to their authority. In doing so, the Reformations produced a series of crises in the European order and crippled the Habsburg bid for hegemony. Nexon's account of these processes provides a theoretical and analytic framework that not only challenges the way international relations scholars think about state formation and international change, but enables us to better understand global politics today.
Daniel H. Nexon is assistant professor of government and foreign service at Georgetown University.
