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- Title
Law of Nations as Reason of State: Diplomacy and the Balance of Power in Vattel's Law of Nations.
- Authors
Devetak, Richard
- Abstract
An essay on Swiss philosopher Emer de Vattel's 1758 book "Le Droit des Gens" or "Law of Nations" as a response to developments in the strategic and diplomatic context is presented. Vattel's concern over moral and imperialist, and confessional and dynastic threats to the states-system of Europe is addressed. His reconstruction of modern natural law is said to have created a pragmatic and normative program for diplomatically managing the European states-system.
- Subjects
EUROPE; PHILOSOPHERS; LE droit des gens (Book); NATURAL law
- Publication
Parergon, 2011, Vol 28, Issue 2, p105
- ISSN
0313-6221
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/pgn.2011.0080