The LaRouche Organization has been referencing the Treaty of Westphalia in many of its articles. Pierre Beaudry's The Economic Policy that Made the Peace of Westphalia will give you the historical understanding of this extremely important historical concept.
March 20—We live under the immediate threat of general, nuclear war, capable of annihilating the human species, and of an economic suicide spiral destructive of human life and progress. What is the way out?
