Peace Treaties and International Law in European History: From the Late Middle Ages to World War One

by Edited by Randall Lesaffer

• ISBN13: 9780521103787
• ISBN10: 0521103789
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-12-11
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Specialists from every European country analyze peace treaty practice from the late fifteenth century to the 1919 Peace of Versailles in this collection. Emphasizing the doctrinal debate about peace treaties and the influence of older, Roman and medieval, concepts on modern practices, the book recalls the reader to before the epochal Peace Treaties of Westphalia of 1648. Its broader perspective allows for a reassessment of the role of the sovereign state in the modern international legal order.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Peace treaties and international law from Lodi to Versailles (1454-1920

Peace treaties from Lodi to Westphalia

Peace treaties from Westphalia to the

Peace treaties from Paris to Versailles

Thinking Peace: voices from the past

Vesitiga pacis. The Roman peace treaty: structure or event?

The influence of medieval Roman law on peace treaties

The kiss of peace

Martinus Garatus Laudensis on treaties

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

The Peace Treaties of Westphalia as an instance of the reception of Roman law

Thinking Peace: towards a better future

Peace treaties, bonne foi and European civility in the Enlightenment

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

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

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

Making Peace: aspects of treaty practice

The ius foederis re-examined: the Peace of Westphalia and the constitution of the Holy

The peace treaties of the Ottoman Empire with European Christian powers

Peace and prosperity: commercial aspects of peacemaking

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

Conclusion

Conclusion

Appendix

Index

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