I understand that they had something to do with the development of modern-day international relations but I’d appreciate a better explanation for it.
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They’re both assigned to history students as things to learn about and compare and contrast.
They were both huge peace treaties following massive world wars. The Westphalian treaty after the 30 years war and the Congress of Vienna after the Napoleonic wars. They were both quite substantial because they set the limits for how much self-control a nation should be able to have over its religion and way of government before it was accepted that third party states would intervene. Both of these world wars were not so much about one country conquring another but more one country wanting to change how the other country were run. The first one became a big religious war between different christian dominions and the second one was between monarchies and republics. These conferances were not so much trying to stop the current wars as prevent new world wars from happening by setting the boundries as to how countries could intervene in each others affairs. Diplomats will still look back at these treaties for clear guidances to what they can do and can not do. This is for example the treaties that say that other countries can not intervene in elections.
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