The Legacy of Vattel's Droit des gens

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• Other Authors: Stapelbroek, Koen (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Trampus, Antonio (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Intellectual life-History.; World politics.; Law-History.; Diplomacy.; Intellectual Studies.; Political History.; Legal History.

This edited collection offers a reassessment of the complicated legacy of Emer de Vattel's Droit des gens, first published in 1758. One of the most influential books in the history of international law and a major reference point in the fields of international relations theory and political tho...

Table of Contents:

• Koen Stapelbroek and Antonio Trampus - The legacy of Vattel's Droit des gens: contexts, concepts, reception, translation and diffusion
• PART I: Vattel's ideas and his context
• Radoslaw Szymanski - Vattel as an intermediary between the economic society of Berne and Poland
• Frederic Iéva - "A poor imitation of Grotius and Pufendorf?" Biographical uncertainties and the laborious genesis of Vattel's Droit des gens
• Alberto Carrera - The citizen's right to leave his country: The concept of exile in Vattel's Droit des Gens
• Koen Stapelbroek - The foundations of Vattel's 'system' of politics and the Seven Years' War: moral philosophy, luxury and the constitutional commercial state
• Antonella Alimento - Publication strategies and reform politics: the French circulation of Vattel's Droit des gens
• PART II: The reception of Vattel in Italy and elsewhere
• Antonio Trampus - Good government and the sovereignty of small states: the Eighteenth and Nineteenth century reception of the Droit des gens
• Danilo Pedemonte - Vattel in the Republic of Genua: theory and practice
• Alberto Clerici - Vattel in the Papal State. Anti-Prussian propaganda and the Law of nations in Italy during the Seven Years' War
• Gert-Fredrik Malt - Vattel's system for subjects in international law and the establishment of Norway as a Nation in 1814
• Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina - The legacy of Vattel's Droit des gens in the long nineteenth century
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