Concepts and Contexts of Vattel's Political and Legal Thought

Administrative / Constitutional Law

Concepts and Contexts of Vattel's Political and Legal Thought

By Peter Schröder
Cambridge University Press June 2021

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ISBN-13
9781108489447
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
June 2021
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Hardback
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U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Swiss-born Emer de Vattel (1714–1767) was one of the last eminent thinkers of natural law. He shaped the later part of early-modern natural jurisprudence. At the time, the subject had become a fashionable academic sub-discipline in both jurisprudence and philosophy. Vattel's considerable impact on statesmen, political thinkers, diplomats and lawyers during his lifetime and after rested primarily on the fact that his The Law of Nations (1758) transformed natural law into the basis of a more comprehensive and practicable theory of interstate relations. His ideas served to promote reform programmes whose comprehensive natures spanned the domains of economic reform, constitutionalism and international diplomacy and foreign trade policy. Vattel's conception centred round the principle that defined all sovereign states as nations composed of societies of free men and profoundly influenced legal and political debates in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Table of Contents

Concepts and contexts of Vattel's political and legal thought – an introduction
Peter Schröder
Part I. Historical and Intellectual Contexts:
1. In search of a nation: Vattel, Neuchâtel and the Swiss confederacy
Nadir Weber
2. Sovereignty contested: Vattel's use of Leibniz, Hobbes and Pufendorf
Ben Holland
3. The development of the law of nations: Wolff and Vattel
Ere Nokkala
4. Vattel and the Abbe de Choisy: French historiography, piety and law of nations
Francesca Iurlaro
5. Vattel and the seven years' war
Koen Stapelbroek
Part II. Concepts:
6. Vattel, the balance of power, and the moral justification of war
Camilla Boisen
7. Regular war, irregulars, and savages
Pablo Kalmanovitz
8. Constitutionalism
Antonio Trampus
9. Vattel's theory of the social contract
Gabriella Silvestrini
Part III. Receptions:
10. Vattel's reception in British America, 1761–1775
Mark Somos
11. Tradition and revolution: eighteenth century German and French contexts and Vattel's law of nations
Nathaniel Boyd
12. Vattel's law of nations in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Greece and Italy
Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina
13. Reception of Vattel in 18th and early 19th century England and Scotland
Marco Barducci
14. Receptions of Vattel in 19th- and 20th-century international law
Theodore Christov
15. Vattel's reception in international relations
Richard Devetak
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