Concepts and contexts of Vattel's political and legal thought /
Schröder, Peter,1965-editor.
"The study of natural law and the law of nations in the early-modern period has expanded remarkably during the last decades. This has partly been inspired by contemporary concerns, in particular by the interest in the genealogy of human rights and the foundations of international law. However, natural law in this period has also been studied in its own historical right, with a view to understanding its intellectual sources and cultural and political uses. Early modern natural law emerged in a variety of forms at the volatile interface of theology, moral philosophy, political thought and jurisprudence. These "different models of natural law" have been described "as conflicting ways of configuring access to ethical and political norms in the service of rival cultural-political programmes". Within the language and concepts of natural law doctrines, then, quite divergent approaches were pursued to regulate and protect human society. Some operated at the level of the domestic state, with a view to rationalising and legitimating its political and juridical authority. Others operated beyond the borders of the territorial state, with a view to regulating interstate relations via the laws of war and peace"--
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Peter Schröder: Concepts and contexts of Vattel's political and legal thought -- an introduction -- Nadir Weber: in search of a nation : Vattel, Neuchâtel and the Swiss Confederacy -- Ben Holland: Sovereignty contested : Vattel's use of Leibniz, Hobbes and Pufendorf -- Ere Nokkala: The development of the Law of Nations : Wolff and Vattel -- Francesca Iurlaro: Vattel and the Abbé de Choisy : French historiography, piety, and Law of Nations -- Koen Stapelbroek: Vattel and the Seven years' War -- Camilla Boisen: Vattel, the balance of power, and the moral justification of war -- Pablo Kalmanovitz: Regular war, irregulars, and savages -- Antonio Trampus: Constitutionalism -- Gabriella Silvest: Vattel's theory of the social contract -- Mark Somos: Vattel's reception in British America, 1761-1775 -- Nathaniel Boyd: Tradition and revolution : eighteenth century German and French contexts and Vattel's Law of Nations -- Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina: Vattel's Law of Nations in late eighteenth -- and early nineteenth-century Greece and Italy -- Marco Barducci: Reception of Vattel in 18th and early 19th century England and Scotland -- Theo Christov: Receptions of Vattel in 19th -- and 20th Century international law -- Richard Devetak: Vattel's reception in international relations.
"The study of natural law and the law of nations in the early-modern period has expanded remarkably during the last decades. This has partly been inspired by contemporary concerns, in particular by the interest in the genealogy of human rights and the foundations of international law. However, natural law in this period has also been studied in its own historical right, with a view to understanding its intellectual sources and cultural and political uses. Early modern natural law emerged in a variety of forms at the volatile interface of theology, moral philosophy, political thought and jurisprudence. These "different models of natural law" have been described "as conflicting ways of configuring access to ethical and political norms in the service of rival cultural-political programmes". Within the language and concepts of natural law doctrines, then, quite divergent approaches were pursued to regulate and protect human society. Some operated at the level of the domestic state, with a view to rationalising and legitimating its political and juridical authority. Others operated beyond the borders of the territorial state, with a view to regulating interstate relations via the laws of war and peace"--
Vattel, Emer de, 1714-1767
International law
Natural law.