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Frederik Dhondt , Balance of Power and Norm Hierarchy. Franco-British Diplomacy after the Peace of Utrecht, Studies in the History of International Law, vol. 7, Leiden-Boston: Brill Nijhoff, 2015, xii + 636pp., ISBN 978-90-04-29374-8

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2017

Raymond Kubben
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Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , June 2017 , pp. 558 - 566
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3 F. Dhondt, Balance of Power and Norm Hierarchy: Franco-British Diplomacy after the Peace of Utrecht (2015), 36.

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6 Ibid., at 513.

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9 Lorenz, supra note 4, at 233–4.

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18 Ibid., at 35.

19 See www.history.ac.uk/makinghistory/themes/cultural_turn.html.

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21 Dhondt, supra note 3, at 11.

22 E.g., P. Bobbitt, The Shield of Achilles (2002), 481–5. See also R. Lesaffer, ‘Peace Treaties and the Formation of International Law’, in Fassbender and Peters, supra note 2, at 71–94.

23 A. Osiander, The States System of Europe 1640-1990 (1994), 4–11. See also I. Clark, Legitimacy in International Society (2005).

24 Dhondt, supra note 3, at 507.

25 Ibid., at 512: ‘The legal framework created by diplomats restricted the freedom of political action in the idiom of legitimacy’.

26 Compare R. Gilpin, War & Change in World Politics (1981).

27 Steiger, H., ‘Rechtliche Strukturen der Europäische Staatenordnung 1648–1792’, (1999) 59 Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht 609 Google Scholar–47.

28 Dhondt, supra note 3, at 24.

29 The law of the Holy Roman Empire.