Home >
Law >
International Law >
System, Order, and International Law: The Early History of International Legal Thought from Machiavelli to Hegel

System, Order, and International Law: The Early History of International Legal Thought from Machiavelli to Hegel

Author: Stefan Kadelbach; Thomas Kleinlein; David Roth-Isigkeit
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198768586
Published In: April 2017
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

List Price: RMB 1,458.60

RMB 1,414.85 Save RMB 43.75 (3%)

Download Order Form

Add to Wishlist
| Add to Compare

Description
Contents

Details

Since the formation of nation-states lawyers, philosophers, and theologians have sought to envisage the ideal political order.

Their concepts, deeply entangled with ideas of theology, state formation, and human nature, form the bedrock of today's theoretical discourses on international law. This volume maps models of early international legal thought from Machiavelli to Hegel before international law became an academic discipline.

The interplay of system and order serves as a leitmotiv throughout the book, helping to link historical models to contemporary discourse.

Part I covers a diverse collection of thinkers in order to scrutinize and contextualize their respective models of the international realm in light of general legal and political philosophy. Part II maps the historical development of international legal thought more generally by distilling common themes and ideas that have remained at the forefront of debate, such as the relationship between law and theology, the role of the individual versus that of the state, the influence of power and economic interests on the law, and the contingencies of time, space and technical opportunities.

In the current political climate, where it is common to state that the importance of the nation-state is vanishing, the problems at issue in the classic theories do not seem so remote: is an international system without central power possible? How can a normative order come about if there is no central force to order relations between states? These essays show how uncovering the history of international law can offer ways in which to envisage its future.

Introduction, Stefan Kadelbach, Thomas Kleinlein and David Roth-Isigkeit

Part I Authors

1: Niccolò Machiavelli's International Legal Thought: Culture, Contingency, and Construction, David Roth-Isigkeit

2: Francisco de Vitoria: A Redesign of Global Order on the Threshold of the Middle Ages to Modern Times, Kirstin Bunge

3: Francisco Suárez S.J. on the End of Peaceful Order among States and Systematic Doctrinal Scholarship, Tobias Schaffner

4: Jean Bodin on International Law, Merio Scattola

5: Alberico Gentili: Sovereignty, natural law, and the system of Roman civil law, Andreas Wagner

6: Althusius: Back to the Future, Thomas Hüglin

7: Hugo Grotius on the conquest of Utopia by Systematic Reasoning, Stefan Kadelbach

8: Orders in disorder: The Question of a Sovereign State of Nature in Hobbes and Rousseau, Jonas Heller

9: The International Legal Argument in Spinoza, Tilman Altwicker

10: States as ethico-political subjects of International Law: The relationship between theory and practice in the international politics of Samuel Pufendorf, Vanda Fiorillo

11: Christian Wolff: System as an Episode?, Thomas Kleinlein

12: The Law of the Nations as the Civil Law of the World: On Montesquieu's political cosmopolitanism, Christian Volk

13: Emer de Vattel on the Society of Nations and the Political System of Europe, Simone Zurbuchen

14: Towards a system of sympathetic law: Envisioning Adam Smith's theory of jurisprudence, Bastian Ronge

15: Systematicity to Excess Kant's Conception of the International Legal Order, Benedict Vischer

16: Fichte and the Echo of his Internationalist Thinking in Romanticism, Carla De Pascale

17: The Plurality of States and the World Order of Reason: On Hegel's Understanding of International Law and Relations, Sergio Dellavalle

Part II Perspectives on the Philosophy of International Law

18: What should the History of the Law of Nations Become?, Martti Koskenniemi

19: State Theory, State Order, State System: Ius Gentium and the constitution of Public Power, Nehal Bhuta

20: Spatial Perceptions, Juridical Practices, and Early International Legal Thought around 1500: From Tordesillas to Saragossa, Thomas Duve

21: The Disorder of Economy? The first Relectio de Indis in a Theological Perspective, Mónica García-Salmones

22: Power and Law as Ordering Devices in the System of International Relations, Gunther Hellmann

23: Universalism and Particularism: A Dichotomy to Read Theories on International Order, Armin von Bogdandy and Sergio Dellavalle

Some Brief Conclusions, Pierre-Marie Dupuy

Browse Books

System, Order, and International Law: The Early History of International Legal Thought from Machiavelli to Hegel

Free delivery Hong Kong?

Details

You may also be interested in these books:

What Our Customers Say?

Browse Books

System, Order, and International Law: The Early History of International Legal Thought from Machiavelli to Hegel

Free delivery Hong Kong?

Details

You may also be interested in these books:

What Our Customers Say?

video title