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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2022

Claire Vergerio
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Universiteit Leiden
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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 Order
Alberico Gentili and the Foundational Myth of the Laws of War
, pp. 1 - 19
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Introduction
  • Claire Vergerio, Universiteit Leiden
  • Book: War, States, and International Order
  • Online publication: 21 July 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009105712.001
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  • Introduction
  • Claire Vergerio, Universiteit Leiden
  • Book: War, States, and International Order
  • Online publication: 21 July 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009105712.001
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  • Introduction
  • Claire Vergerio, Universiteit Leiden
  • Book: War, States, and International Order
  • Online publication: 21 July 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009105712.001
Available formats
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