The Wars Betwixt State and Society

Could the growing schism between the societies which make up the nation-state and the state itself be at the core of the challenge to the 21st Century as populations now debate whether, and how, they can re-structure the Westphalian geopolitical matrix, perhaps one society at a time.

The Wars Betwixt State and Society
The Swearing of the Oath of Ratification of the Treaty of Münster, which ended the Eighty Years' War between Spain and the Dutch Republic as part of the wider Peace of Westphalia. Painted by Gerard ter Borch in 1648.