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

8 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) Greece and Rome devised a body of principles known as natural law. Th is was a body o ...

chapter one Doing Justice to Others T he abduction of Helen of Troy was the archetypal example of a wrongful act that led to an ...

10 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) applied to wars on the largest of scales as well as on the smallest. When Alex- ande ...

Doing Justice to Others 11 Plural Worlds In the beginning, human po liti cal horizons— and hence loyalties— were in- evitably na ...

12 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) simultaneously hostile to outsiders. Konrad Lorenz, the noted Austrian ethologist, ...

Doing Justice to Others 13 logical makeup may incline us in certain antisocial directions, there seems to be no à priori reason ...

14 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) government within those cities. As early as 4000 bc, there is an example of the rule ...

Doing Justice to Others 15 Th e gods played a prominent role in treaty making, to the point that it has been asserted that, stri ...

16 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) in China. Th e oldest surviving Indian text that contains material on inter- nationa ...

Doing Justice to Others 17 warfare were not a preoccupation. On the contrary, Kautilya explicitly ap- proved of the tactic of de ...

18 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) and Autumn Era (722– 481 bc, so named because these were years covered by the Chines ...

Doing Justice to Others 19 An interesting feature of China’s Warring States period was the forma- tion of various leagues of sta ...

20 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) Diplomatic practice was an area that received a great deal of attention from Chinese ...

Doing Justice to Others 21 refrain from pursuing defeated enemies who were fl eeing from battle. Th e right of other states to r ...

22 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) by benevolence and harmony. Fourth and fi nally, the Confucians had a low opinion of ...

Doing Justice to Others 23 En glish usually implies. Th e relation of small states to large ones was com- pared by Mencius to ...

24 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) and of the will of individual princes. On this basis, legalism may be seen as  a sta ...

Doing Justice to Others 25 tions with non- Chinese peoples— power appears to have counted for a great deal more than law. Th e s ...

26 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) It is well, at this point, to take note of another of Aristotle’s ideas that similar ...

Doing Justice to Others 27 the Greeks were acutely aware of the existence of “the Greek nation— the community of blood and langu ...