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International relations -- History -- 17th century.
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International law -- History -- 17th century.
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Europe -- Politics and government -- 17th century.
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| Descript |
[xiii], 273 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Note |
"This volume emerged as a product of the conference 'War, the State and International Law in Early Modern Europe' held at the German Historical Institute, London, in June 2008." -- p. [xiii]. |
| Contents |
War, the state and international law in seventeenth-century Europe / Olaf Asbach and Peter Schroder -- Wars of states or wars of state-formation? / Johannes Burkhardt -- Revisiting the "war-makes-sense" thesis : war, taxation and social property relations in early modern Europe / Benno Teschke -- The law of nations and the doctrine of Terra nullius / David Boucher -- Taming the fox and the lion - some aspects of the sixteenth-century's debate on inter-state relations / Peter Schroder -- War, diplomacy and the ethics of self-constraint in the age of Grotius / Harald Kleinschmidt -- Liquefied sanctity : Grotius and the promise of global law / Bertram Keller -- The anatomy of power in international relations : the doctrine of reason of state as a "realistic" impact / Peter Nitschke -- Security as a norm in Hobbes's theory of war : a critique of Schmitt's interpretation of Hobbes's approach to international relations / Luc Foisneau -- Hobbes on the concepts of the state and political sovereignty / Christine Chwaszcza -- Peace impossible? : the Holy Roman Empire and the European state system in the seventeenth century / Christoph Kampmann -- Hegemon history : Pufendorf's shifting perspectives on France and French power / David Saunders -- Colonial design in European international law of the seventeenth century / Andrea Weindl -- Dynamics of conflict and illusions of law : making war and thinking peace in the modern international system / Olaf Asbach. |
| Alt author |
Asbach, Olaf, 1960-
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Schröder, Peter, 1965-
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| ISBN |
9780754668114 (hbk) |
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