Editing Peace of Westphalia (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Alegoría de la Paz de Westfalia, por Jacob Jordaens.jpg|thumb|''Allegory of the Peace of Westphalia'', by [[Jacob Jordaens]]]]

The treaties did not entirely end conflicts arising out of the Thirty Years' War. Fighting continued between France and Spain until the [[Treaty of the Pyrenees]] in 1659. The [[Dutch-Portuguese War]] that had begun during the [[Iberian Union]] between Spain and [[Portugal]], as part of the Eighty Years' War, went on until 1663. Nevertheless, the Peace of Westphalia did settle many outstanding European issues of the time.{{citation needed|date=October 2020}}

===Westphalian sovereignty===
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Some scholars of international relations have identified the Peace of Westphalia as the origin of principles crucial to modern [[international relations]], including the inviolability of borders and non-interference in the [[Domestic policy|domestic affairs]] of [[Sovereign state|sovereign states]]. This system became known in the literature as [[Westphalian sovereignty]].<ref name="kiss">{{cite book|author=Henry Kissinger|year=2014|title=World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History|chapter=Introduction and Chapter 1|publisher=[[Allen Lane]]|isbn=978-0-241-00426-5|author-link=Henry Kissinger}}</ref>{{page needed|date=October 2020}} Most modern historians have challenged the association of this system with the Peace of Westphalia, calling it the "Westphalian myth".<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Osiander|first=Andreas|date=2001|title=Sovereignty, International Relations, and the Westphalian Myth|journal=International Organization|language=en|volume=55|issue=2|pages=251–287|doi=10.1162/00208180151140577|s2cid=145407931|issn=1531-5088}}</ref> They have challenged the view that the modern European states system originated with the Westphalian treaties. The treaties do not contain anything in their text about religious freedom, sovereignty, or balance of power that can be construed as international law principles. Constitutional arrangements of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] are the only context in which sovereignty and religious equality are mentioned in the text, but they are not new ideas in this context. While the treaties do not contain the basis for the modern laws of nations themselves, they do symbolize the end of a long period of [[religious war|religious conflict]] in Europe.<ref>{{cite book|author=Randall Lesaffer |year=2014|title=Peace Treaties and International Law in European History: From the Late Middle Ages to World War One |chapter=Peace treaties from Lodi to Westphalia |publisher=Cambridge |isbn=978-0-511-21603-9 |page=9}}</ref>