Book contents
- War, States, and International Order
- Cambridge Studies in International Relations: 159
- War, States, and International Order
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Context, Reception, and the Study of Great Thinkers in International Relations
- Part I Gentili’s De iure belli in Its Original Context
- Part II Gentili’s De iure belli and the Myth of “Modern War”
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in International Relations
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 July 2022
Book contents
- War, States, and International Order
- Cambridge Studies in International Relations: 159
- War, States, and International Order
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Context, Reception, and the Study of Great Thinkers in International Relations
- Part I Gentili’s De iure belli in Its Original Context
- Part II Gentili’s De iure belli and the Myth of “Modern War”
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in International Relations
Summary
The introduction outlines the conventional narrative that this book seeks to question: The idea that the allocation of the legal right to wage war only to sovereign states, penned by a humanitarianly minded Gentili and implemented in practice through the seventeenth century, became one of the core stabilizing factors of the new states-system in the aftermath of the cataclysmic Wars of Religion. It then lays out the book’s core argument along with its stakes for contemporary debates about the regulation of warfare in the international order.
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- War, States, and International OrderAlberico Gentili and the Foundational Myth of the Laws of War, pp. 1 - 19Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022