Justice among Nations. A History of International Law - Stephen C. Neff

268 A Positive Century (1815–1914) system of international law.” Natural law, on the other hand, is rooted in “the permanent l ...

Dissident Voices 269 held custom to be superior to treaties in being more fl exible. Custom, in his opinion, is “an intermediate ...

270 A Positive Century (1815–1914) the expense of governments. In the legal sphere in general, this empower- ment took three pri ...

Dissident Voices 271 It was primarily British po liti cal economists who took up the physiocratic ideas and applied them more wi ...

272 A Positive Century (1815–1914) States sternly warned his fellow nationals that, while extending commercial ties with foreign ...

Dissident Voices 273 liberal policies around the world. Along with broad freedom of movement of capital, and remarkably free mov ...

274 A Positive Century (1815–1914) to the enjoyment of life, liberty and property.” Borchard readily conceded, though, that this ...

Dissident Voices 275 end was put forward in 1907 by Carlos R. Tobar of Ec ua dor. He was a man of many talents— a novelist and l ...

276 A Positive Century (1815–1914) fi gure, the economist and phi los o pher John Stuart Mill. Th e most signifi - cant feature ...

Dissident Voices 277 ciple of nonintervention. In the pluralist spirit of positivism, he insisted on the right of each state to ...

278 A Positive Century (1815–1914) became part of general international law. Th e accepted rule instead was that any regime that ...

Dissident Voices 279 an exceptional case, Mill argued, third states would be justifi ed in forcibly intruding into the confl ict ...

280 A Positive Century (1815–1914) practices, and customs. Th e nationality school joined the historical school in opposing the ...

Dissident Voices 281 “there will be harmony and brotherhood.” As with so many idealists, militant imagery came readily to him. ...

282 A Positive Century (1815–1914) Mancini proved to be on the winning side of history’s trends. Italian po- liti cal unifi cati ...

Dissident Voices 283 this connection, he gave extended attention to the question of whether hu- manitarian intervention should b ...

284 A Positive Century (1815–1914) Th e Decline of the Nationality School Th e nationality school did not win widespread support ...

Dissident Voices 285 cially severe challenge, since the nationalities of the world are not (by a long shot) con ve niently group ...

286 A Positive Century (1815–1914) Th e Technocratic Variant Th e technocratic variant of solidarism was the fi rst to appear, a ...

Dissident Voices 287 ment. Th e St.- Simonian vision was therefore decidedly elitist in outlook— even authoritarian, as it lacke ...