Mechanisms governing how authority is distributed territorially or extended diplomatically beyond a state's ordinary domestic institutions, including Devolution, Indirect Rule and Diplomatic Immunity. Belongs here: a mechanism concerning the territorial distribution of governing authority or a state's formal arrangements with other states and their representatives. Does not belong here: a mechanism internal to how one central government itself is formed or checked, grouped under the other subcategories above.
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1. Peace of Westphalia (Wikipedia)
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The Peace of Westphalia is the collective name for two peace treaties signed in October 1648 in the Westphalian cities of Osnabruck and Munster.
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