Paradoxes of Peace in Nineteenth Century Europe

by Hippler, Thomas; Vec, Milos

• ISBN13: 9780198727996
• ISBN10: 0198727992
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-04-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Thomas Hippler, Associate Professor, Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po), University of Lyon, France,Milos Vec, Professor of European Legal and Constitutional History, University of Vienna

Thomas Hippler is Associate Professor at the Institute for Political Studies (Sciences Po) at the University of Lyon, France. He studied History, Philosophy, and Music in Berlin, Paris, Florence, and Berkeley. He is senior research associate on the Oxford programme 'The Changing Character of War'.


Milos Vec is a jurist and Chair of European legal and constitutional history at the University of Vienna. He was a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main, and he has held teaching positions at the universities of Bonn, Tubingen, and Constance. He was co-director with Thomas Hippler of Paradoxes of Peace in 19th Century Europe, a project group at the University of Helsinki. He specializes in the history of international law, particularly in the 19th century.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Peace as a Polemic Concept: Writing the History of Peace in Nineteenth Century Europe, Thomas Hippler and Milos Vec
Part I: International Law
2. From Invisible Peace to the Legitimation of War. Paradoxes of a Concept in 19th Century International Law Doctrine, Milos Vec
3. Peace by Code: Draft Solutions for the Codification of International Law, Eliana Augusti
4. Aim: Peace - Sanction: War. International arbitration and the problem of enforcement, Kristina Lovric-Pernak
Part II: Economy
5. The Limits of 'Cosmopolitical Economy': International Trade and the Nineteenth-Century Nation-State, Thomas Hopkins
6. The Promise and Threat of Free Trade in a Globalising Economy: A European Perspective, Niels P. Petersson
7. 4 Legal Avoidance as Peace Instrument. Domination and Pacification through Asymmetric Loan Transactions, Lea Heimbeck
Part III: Actors
8. Paradoxes of a Great Power Peace: The Case of the Concert of Europe, Matthias Schulz
9. The Holy Alliance as 'An Order of Things Conformable to the Interests of Europe and to the Laws of Religion and Humanity', Adrian Brisku
10. From Nationalist Peace to Democratic War: The Peace Congresses in Paris (1849) and Geneva (1867), Thomas Hippler
11. The Politics of Exclusionary Inclusion. Peace Activism and the Struggle on International and Domestic Order in the International Council of Women, 1899 - 1914, Susan Zimmermann
Part IV: Values
12. The Paradox of Peace with 'Savage' and 'Barbarian' Peoples, Oliver Eberl
13. The Illiberality of Liberal International Law: Religion, Science, and the Peaceful Violence of Civilization, Stefan Kroll
14. Europeanization, Islamization, and the New Imperialism of the Ottoman State, Mustafa Aksakal
Epilogue
15. Perpetual Peace as Irony, as Utopia, and as Politics, Bo Strath