Overview

For many centuries, thinkers have tried to understand and to conceptualize political and legal order beyond the boundaries of sovereign territories. Their concepts, deeply entangled with ideas of theology, state formation, and human nature, form the bedrock of todays theoretical discourses on international law. This volume engages with models of early international legal thought from Machiavelli to Hegel before international law in the modern sense became an academic discipline of its own. The interplay of system and order serves as a leitmotiv throughout the book, helping to link historical models to contemporary discourse.Part I of the book covers a diverse collection of thinkers in order to scrutinize and contextualize their respective models of the international realm in light of general legal and political philosophy. Part II maps the historical development of international legal thought more generally by distilling common themes and ideas, such as the relationship between universality and particularity, the role of the state, the influence of power and economic interests on the law, and the contingencies of time, space and technical opportunities.In the current political climate, where it appears that the reinvigorated concept of the nation state as an ordering force competes with internationalist thinking, the problems at issue in the classic theories point to contemporary questions: is an international system without central power possible? How can a normative order come about if there is no central force to order relations between states? These essays show that uncovering the history of international law can offer ways in which to envisage its future.

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Author:   Stefan Kadelbach ,  Thomas Kleinlein ,  David Roth-Isigkeit
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 3.70cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.970kg
ISBN:  

9780198768586

ISBN 10:   0198768583
Pages:   544
Publication Date:   09 March 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Stefan Kadelbach, Thomas Kleinlein and David Roth-Isigkeit: Introduction Part I Authors 1: David Roth-Isigkeit: Niccolo Machiavelli's International Legal Thought: Culture, Contingency, and Construction 2: Kirstin Bunge: Francisco de Vitoria: A Redesign of Global Order on the Threshold of the Middle Ages to Modern Times 3: Tobias Schaffner: Francisco Suarez S. J. on the End of Peaceful Order among States and Systematic Doctrinal Scholarship 4: Merio Scattola: Jean Bodin on International Law 5: Andreas Wagner: Alberico Gentili: Sovereignty, Natural Law, and the System of Roman Civil Law 6: Thomas Huglin: Althusius: Back to the Future 7: Stefan Kadelbach: Hugo Grotius on the Conquest of Utopia by Systematic Reasoning 8: Jonas Heller: Orders in disorder: The Question of a Sovereign State of Nature in Hobbes and Rousseau 9: Tilman Altwicker: The International Legal Argument in Spinoza 10: Vanda Fiorillo: States as Ethico-Political Subjects of International Law: The Relationship between Theory and Practice in the International Politics of Samuel Pufendorf 11: Thomas Kleinlein: Christian Wolff: System as an Episode? 12: Christian Volk: The Law of the Nations as the Civil Law of the World: On Montesquieu's Political Cosmopolitanism 13: Simone Zurbuchen: Emer de Vattel on the Society of Nations and the Political System of Europe 14: Bastian Ronge: Towards a System of Sympathetic Law: Envisioning Adam Smith's Theory of Jurisprudence 15: Benedict Vischer: Systematicity to Excess Kant's Conception of the International Legal Order 16: Carla De Pascale: Fichte and the Echo of his Internationalist Thinking in Romanticism 17: Sergio Dellavalle: The Plurality of States and the World Order of Reason: On Hegel's Understanding of International Law and Relations Part II Perspectives on the Philosophy of International Law 18: Martti Koskenniemi: What should the History of the Law of Nations Become? 19: Nehal Bhuta: State Theory, State Order, State System: Ius Gentium and the constitution of Public Power 20: Thomas Duve: Spatial Perceptions, Juridical Practices, and Early International Legal Thought around 1500: From Tordesillas to Saragossa 21: Monica Garcia-Salmones: The Disorder of Economy? The first Relectio de Indis in a Theological Perspective 22: Gunther Hellmann: Power and Law as Ordering Devices in the System of International Relations 23: Armin von Bogdandy and Sergio Dellavalle: Universalism and Particularism: A Dichotomy to Read Theories on International Order Some Brief ConclusionsPierre-Marie Dupuy:

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System, Order, and International Law is an ambitious and engaging edited volume at the crossroads of multiple disciplines. Its wide-ranging coverage of authors and topics will speak to scholars of international law, international relations, political theory, and the history of political thought. As a work on the history of international law, it is particularly noteworthy for covering the thoughts of those who are seldom considered part of the international law canon. * Claire Vergerio, Journal of the History of International Law *

Author Information

Stefan Kadelbach is Professor of Public International Law and European Constitutional Law at Goethe University Frankfurt/Main and a Member of ' Normative Orders', Cluster of Excellence, a group of researchers from various disciplines funded by the German Research Foundation. His teaching and research covers general international law, the theory of international law, human rights, and European and German constitutional law. Thomas Kleinlein is Privatdozent at the Institute for Public Law and Associate Member of 'Normative Orders', Cluster of Excellence, at Goethe University Frankfurt/Main. He is the principal investigator of a research project funded by a grant from the German Research Foundation entitled Federalism of Rights: Perspectives of Dialogue and Pluralism in Multilevel Fundamental Rights Adjudication in Germany, the United States Compared. In the winter semester 2016/17, he is a visiting professor at Humboldt University Berlin. David Roth-Isigkeit is a Research Fellow at 'Normative Orders', Cluster of Excellence at Goethe University Frankfurt/Main.

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