Mr Zielonka thinks that the Westphalian model is out of date and impractical.
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Mr Zielonka's model would work more smoothly if there were an outside guarantor of free trade and competition, especially if perceived to have divine authority.
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The treaty signed in that German province in 1648 broke the Holy Roman Empire which was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire, but the kind of fuzzy political entity that Mr Zielonka likes.