The Legacy of Vattel's Droit des gens

The Legacy of Vattel's Droit des gens

Author: Koen Stapelbroek

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-08-13

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 3030238385

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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 thought, this book played a role in the transformation of diplomatic practice in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. But how did Vattel’s legacy take shape? The volume argues that the enduring relevance of Vattel’s Droit des gens cannot be explained in terms of doctrines and academic disciplines that formed in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Instead, the chapters show how the complex reception of this book took shape historically and why it had such a wide geographical and disciplinary appeal until well into the twentieth century. The volume charts its reception through translations, intellectual, ideological and political appropriations as well as new practical usages, and explores Vattel’s discursive and conceptual innovations. Drawing on a wide range of sources, such as archive memoranda and diplomatic correspondences, this volume offers new perspectives on the book’s historical contexts and cultures of reception, moving past the usual approach of focusing primarily on the text. In doing so, this edited collection forms a major contribution to this new direction of study in intellectual history in general and Vattel’s Droit des gens in particular.


Sovereignty, Knowledge, Law

Sovereignty, Knowledge, Law

Author: Panu Minkkinen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-05-22

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1134028601

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Sovereignty, Knowledge, Law investigates the notion of sovereignty from three different, but related perspectives: as a legal question in relation to the sovereign state, as a political question in relation to sovereign power, and as a metaphysical question in relation to sovereign self-knowledge. The varied and interchangeable uses of legal sovereignty, political sovereignty and metaphysical sovereignty in contemporary debates have resulted in a situation where the word ‘sovereignty’ itself has become something of a non-concept. Panu Minkkinen shows here how these three perspectives have informed one another, by addressing their shared relationship to law, and to the ‘autocephalous’ function of sovereignty; that is, the attempt to provide a single source and foundation for law, power, and self-knowledge. Through an effort to domesticate the intrinsically ‘heterocephalous’ nature of power, the juridical and jurisprudential aim has been to confine power within the closed vertical hierarchy of traditional legal thinking. Sovereignty, Knowledge, Law thus elaborates this heterocephaly, proposing new understandings of sovereignty, as well as of law and of legal scholarship.


La nécessité en droit international

La nécessité en droit international

Author: Sarah Cassella

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-05-06

Total Pages: 591

ISBN-13: 9004215867

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La Commission du droit international, après avoir longuement hésité, a inscrit l’état de nécessité dans sa codification de la responsabilité des États en tant que circonstance excluant l’illicéité. L’objet de cette étude est de démontrer qu’il s’agit d’un mécanisme beaucoup plus diffus et fondamental du droit international, intimement lié à ses caractéristiques propres. Il a comme fonction la limitation des obligations substantielles des États lors de la survenance d’un fait-condition – la situation de nécessité – afin d’éviter que l’application du droit ne génère un coût social excessif. Sa réalisation requiert toujours une pondération des intérêts en conflit. Seulement lorsqu’un coût social excessif ne peut être évité, l’état de nécessité intervient dans le cadre des obligations secondaires de la responsabilité internationale, en tant que circonstance atténuante. After much hesitation, the International Law Commission codified the state of necessity as a circumstance precluding wrongfulness in the field of State responsibility. This study aims to demonstrate that it is a much wider mechanism, essential to international law and strictly connected to its own characteristics. It performs the function of limiting the substantial obligations of States in case of the realization of a fact condition – a situation of necessity – in order to avert an excessive social cost, born out of law implementation. It always works through a balance of conflicting interests. Only when a social cost cannot be avoided, the state of necessity, under the features of a mitigating circumstance, enters the field of secondary obligations relating to international responsibility.


A Dual Approach to Ocean Governance

A Dual Approach to Ocean Governance

Author: Mr Yoshifumi Tanaka

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2013-02-28

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1409496392

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Taking the North-East Atlantic Ocean as an example of regional practice, this book addresses the dual approach to ocean governance in international law. It examines the interaction between zonal and integrated management approaches and the conservation of marine living resources and marine biological diversity. The study examines the limitations of the traditional zonal approach and suggests new possibilities for conformity between sovereign states, international law and sustainable development.


Thomas Aquinas on War and Peace

Thomas Aquinas on War and Peace

Author: Gregory M. Reichberg

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1107019907

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The first book-length study of Aquinas's teaching on just war, its antecedents, and its reception by subsequent thinkers.


Succession Between International Organizations

Succession Between International Organizations

Author: Patrick R. Myers

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-08-21

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1136157581

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First Published in 1993. Succession between international organizations is a controversial topic. What is it about the topic that provokes such diverse reactions? Is there really such a thing as succession between international organizations? Does it ressemble any other form of succession or is it something completely different? The present study is an attempt to shed some light on this little-known area of international law.


Republican Principles in International Law

Republican Principles in International Law

Author: M. Sellers

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2006-03-07

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 0230505295

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Republican Principles in International Law considers the fundamental requirements of a just world order, as applied to public international law. This book sets the standard for legitimate government, both within and beyond the jurisdiction of separate states and nations.