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5 - God, Sovereignty, and the Morality of Intervention outside Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2021

By
David M. Lantigua
Edited by
Pamela Slotte  and
John D. Haskell
Pamela Slotte
Affiliation:
Åbo Akademi University
John D. Haskell
Affiliation:
University of Manchester
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Summary

The 1648 Peace of Westphalia typifies the “modern” starting point of state sovereignty and humanitarian intervention within conventional historical treatments of International Relations (IR) theory. The treaties ending the Thirty Years’ War signaled the dawn of an international society after medieval Latin Christendom with new diplomatic arrangements that assigned legitimate autonomy to specific European states independent of Roman imperial and papal authorities. The ideological archetypes of Westphalia for IR theory during the twentieth century were contemporaries, Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) the realist and Hugo Grotius (1583–1645) the rationalist. Each of them powerfully envisioned a modern form of international relations: Hobbes accented sovereign political independence and international anarchy between states whereas Grotius affirmed a worldwide association of states absent a global authority yet still regulated by norms of universal law to justify war and intervention.

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Warcolonialismglobal historypropertyinternational lawpapacyinternational relationsGrotiusVattelVitoria
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Christianity and International Law
An Introduction
 , pp. 91 - 114
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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