Claire Vergerio (Universiteit Leiden)

War, States, and International Order

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Vergerio examines the legacy of Alberico Gentili's treatise on the laws of war to undermine conventional narratives about when, why, and how the legal right to wage war became restricted to sovereign states, providing new insights into the history of the laws of war and the sources of international order.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in International Relations
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9781009107594
• ISBN-10: 1009107593
• Artikelnr.: 70177649

Autorenporträt

Claire Vergerio is Assistant Professor of International Relations in the Institute of Political Science, Leiden University, the Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Context, reception, and the study of great thinkers in International
Relations; Part I. Gentili's De iure Belli in its Original Context: 2.
Alberico Gentili's De iure Belli: Between Bodin and the reason of state
tradition; 3. Grounding an absolutist approach to the laws of war; Part II.
Gentili's De iure Belli and the Myth of 'Modern War': 4. Unearthing the
'true founder' of international law; 5. Constructing the history of the
'modern' laws of war; 6. Carl Schmitt and the entrenchment of the myth.