Peace treaties and international law in European history : from the late Middle Ages to World War One / edited by Randall Lesaffer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lesaffer, Randall, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peace treaties--History.

Peace treaties.

International law--Europe--History.

International law.

Europe--Foreign relations--Treaties.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 481 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Peace Treaties & International Law in European History

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the formation of the modern law of nations, peace treaties played a pivotal role. Many basic principles and rules that governed and still govern relations between states were introduced and elaborated in the great peace treaties from the Renaissance onwards. Nevertheless, until recently few scholars have studied these primary sources of the law of nations from a juridical perspective. In this edited collection, specialists from all over Europe, including legal and diplomatic historians, international lawyers and an International Relations theorist, analyse peace treaty practice from the late fifteenth century to the Peace of Versailles of 1919. Important emphasis is given to the doctrinal debate about peace treaties and the influence of older, Roman and medieval concepts on modern practices. This book goes back further in time beyond the epochal Peace of Treaties of Westphalia of 1648 and this broader perspective allows for a reassessment of the role of the sovereign state in the modern international legal order.

Contents:

Introduction / Randall Lesaffer

PART I. PEACE TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL LAW FROM LODI TO VERSAILLES (1454-1920)

Peace treaties from Lodi to Westphalia / Randall Lesaffer

Peace treaties from Westphalia to the revolutionary era / Heinz Duchhardt

Peace treaties from Paris to Versailles / Heinhard Steiger

PART II. THINKING PEACE: VOICES FROM THE PAST

Vestigia pacis. The Roman peace treaty: structure or event? / Christian Baldus

The influence of medieval Roman law on peace treaties / Karl-Heinz Ziegler

The kiss of peace / Hanna Vollrath

Martinus Garatus Laudensis on treaties / Alain Wiffels

The importance of medieval canon law and the scholastic tradition for the emergence of the early modern international legal order / Dominique Bauer

The peace treaties of Westphalia as an instance of the reception of Roman law / Laurens Winkel

PART III. THINKING PEACE: TOWARDS A BETTER FUTURE

Peace treaties, bonne foi and European civility in the Enlightenment / Marc Bélissa

Peace, security and international organisations: the German international lawyers and the Hague Conferences / Ingo Hueck

Consent and caution: Lassa Oppenheim and his reaction to World War I / Mathias Schmoeckel

Talking peace: social science, peace negotiations and the structure of politics / Andreas Osiander

PART IV. MAKING PEACE: ASPECTS OF TREATY PRACTICE

The ius foederis re-examined: the Peace of Westphalia and the constitution of the Holy Roman Empire / Ronald G. Asch

The peace treaties of the Ottoman Empire with European Christian powers / Karl-Heinz Ziegler

Peace and prosperity: commercial aspects of peacemaking / Stphen Neff

The 1871 Peace Treaty between France and Germany and the 1919 Peace Treaty of Versailles / Christian Tomuschat

PART V. CONCLUSION

Conclusion / Randall Lesaffer

Appendix: Tractatus de confederatione, pace, & conventionibus Principum / Martinus Garatus Laudensis, ed. Alain Wiffels.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-51604-6

0-511-21424-3

0-511-21603-3

0-511-21066-3

0-511-33146-0

0-511-49423-8

0-511-21243-7

OCLC:

560237063