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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to Westphalia, a province of Prussia, bordering on Hanover, the Rhenish Province, the Netherlands, etc. Westphalia was formerly a duchy, and (with larger territory) a Napoleonic kingdom from 1807 to 1813.
  • noun A native or an inhabitant of Westphalia.

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  • 3 I agree wholeheartedly that the westphalian nation state is just one manifestation of an authoritarian power structure.

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  • On the whole I’m willing to take them at their word that they do more good than bad unlike America, whose state-power is based on exploitation and inextricably embedded in a deterministic negative-sum game of westphalian realism.

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