Intervention and state sovereignty in Central Europe, 1500-1780 / Patrick Milton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milton, Patrick, author.

Series:

Oxford Academic.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intervention (International law)--History.

Intervention (International law).

Humanitarian intervention--European Union countries.

Humanitarian intervention.

Humanitarian intervention--History.

Sovereignty--History--16th century.

Sovereignty.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

Interventions in other states on behalf of their subject populations is often portrayed as a novel phenomenon in state practice, one which breaches the old principle of sovereignty. But is this practice really so new? This book argues that such interventions for the protection of other rulers' subjects occurred frequently as far back as the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. It is the first detailed study of interventions in the early modern period and focusses on central Europe, in particular the Holy Roman Empire. It therefore challenges the common view that in the period after the Peace of Westphalia (1648), the legal scope for and occurrence of intervention were reduced. The book sheds new light on the geopolitical and legal interconnections between the old German <i>Reich</i> and Europe, while also providing comparative insights. It investigates the norms inherent in central European interventions and thereby contributes to a better understanding of the political and legal culture of the Empire, while also assessing the relative importance of geopolitical considerations in such undertakings.

Contents:

Abbreviations

Notes on the Text

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Introduction

1. Legal Foundations: Imperial Constitutional Law and the Law of Nations and Nature

PART ONE: EUROPEAN INTERVENTIONS IN CENTRAL EUROPE, c.1500-1780

2. Interventions in Central Europe I: c.1500-1618

3. Interventions in Central Europe II: 1618-1645

4. Guarantees and Interventions: European Powers and the Empire, 1645-1780

PART TWO: INTERVENTION AS JUDICIAL EXECUTION WITHIN THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE

5. Interventions in Defence of Mediate Subjects: The Smallest Territories, c.1500-1780

6. Intervention in Small Principalities: The Case of Nassau-Siegen, 1699-c.1724

7. Intervention in Medium-Sized Principalities: The Case of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, 1713-1730

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on Publisher website; title from home page (viewed on October 11, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Milton, Patrick Intervention and State Sovereignty in Central Europe, 1500-1780

ISBN:

0-19-196751-3

0-19-269897-4

0-19-269898-2

OCLC:

1349280358

Publisher Number:

10.1093/oso/9780192871183.001.0001 DOI