Religion in European international politics after the Peace of Westphalia?

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Prior to the early part of the 16th century, that is 1517, there was no religious Catholic Protestant split to speak of.

The European Wars of the 16th century mostly centered around the Holy Roman Empire (HRE), the entity that was the one most divided by the Catholic-Protestant split. This would include the modern Netherlands and Belgium, (shaded pink on the map in the link). One way of looking at this was that most western European wars between 1530 and 1648 were quasi "civil wars" between Catholic and Protestant members of the HRE (and their allies and affiliates). That's why these wars took the tone of "religious" wars: The combatants were (mostly) divided along the lines of religion.

After 1648, the center of aggression turned to Catholic France, under Louis XIV and XV. They were opposed by Protestant England and the Netherlands, but also by the Catholic Austrian and HRE, and often by Spain in the 17th century. In the 18th century, there were games of "musical chairs" with Protestant England and Catholic Austria allied against Catholic France and Protestant Prussia in the War of Austrian Succession, and then Protestant England and Prussia allied against Catholic France and Austria in the Seven Years' War. Which is to say that the role of religion declined sharply after 1648.

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