Geopolitical influences on the Jouvenelian model

This is very important. Not only do less powerful states get modeled on the more powerful ones as part of the formation of alliances and rivalries, but when a specific class gains power in one state it looks for allies of the same class in other states. Merchants support merchants, landowning nobles support land owning nobles, etc. So, the conflicts in one place become conflicts elsewhere, creating conflicts between types of state, which inevitably become ideological, transnational, apocalyptic conflicts. The struggle between republics and monarchies after th French Revolution is where it comes out into the open.