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

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Haggenmacher, Grotius et la doctrine de la guerre juste. See also Gustavo Gozzi,
Diritti e civilità: Storia e fi losofi a del diritto internazionale (Il Mulino, 2010), 47– 74.
Th ere is an ocean of literature on Th omas Hobbes. Of par tic u lar note from the
standpoint of international relations and international law are Boucher, Po liti cal Th e-
ories, 145– 67; Jonathan Haslam, No Virtue Like Necessity: Realist Th ought in Interna-
tional Relations since Machiavelli (Yale University Press, 2002), 50– 56; Cornelia Na-
vari, “Hobbes, the State of Nature and the Law of Nations,” in Ian Clark and Iver B.
Neumann, eds.. Classical Th eories of International Relations, 20– 41 (Macmillan,
1996); and Tuck, Rights of War and Peace, 109– 39. For an explicit contrast between
Grotius and Hobbes, see Edwin De Witt Dickinson, Th e Equality of States in Interna-
tional Law (Harvard University Press, 1920), 69– 75.
On the division of Eu ro pe an international lawyers into the Grotian and the natu-
ralist camps, see Dominque Gaurier, Histoire du droit international: Auteurs, doc-
trines et développement de l’Antiquité à l’aube de la période contemporaine (Presses
universitaires de Rennes, 2005), 167– 76. Grotius’s immediate followers have not, as
yet, attracted a great deal of scholarly attention. On Rachel, see Tetsuya Toyoda, Th e-
ory and Politics of the Law of Nations : Po liti cal Bias in International Law Discourse of
Seven German Court Councilors in the Seventeenth and Eigh teenth Centuries (Marti-
nus Nijhoff , 2011), 51– 80.
Th e naturalists have, so far, received greater attention than the Grotians, with
Pufendorf in the clear lead. On his opposition to the concept of a voluntary law of na-
tions, see Toyoda, Th eory and Politics, 30– 39; and Nussbaum, Concise History, 147–



  1. For a general account of Pufendorf ’s career and thought, see Leonard Krieger, Th e
    Politics of Discretion: Samuel Pufendorf and the Ac cep tance of Natural Law (University
    of Chicago Press, 1965). Th is contains, however, only a little about his contribution to
    international law (164– 69). For greater attention to this aspect of his thought, see
    Boucher, Po liti cal Th eories, 223– 54; Tuck, Rights of War and Peace, 140– 65; Walter
    Schiff er, Th e Legal Community of Mankind: A Critical Analysis of the Modern Concept
    of World Or ga ni za tion (Columbia University Press, 1954), 49– 63; and Gossi, Diritti
    e civilità, 78– 87. Andrew Linklater, “Rationality and Obligation in the States- System:
    Th e Lessons of Pufendorf ’s Law of Nations,” 9 Millennium J of Int’l Studies 215– 28
    (1980) analyzes Pufendorf from a neo- Kantian perspective.
    On the signifi cance of Spinoza for international law, see H. Lauterpacht, “Spinoza
    and International Law,” 8 BYBIL 89– 107 (1927). On the relationship of Rousseau to
    Hobbes, see Tuck, Rights of War and Peace, 197– 207. On Samuel Cocceji, see Toyoda,
    Th eory and Politics, 135– 48.
    5. Of Spiders and Bees
    For a general overview of international law in the period, see Heinz Duchhardt,
    “From the Peace of Westphalia to the Congress of Vienna,” in Bardo Fassbender and
    Anne Peters (eds.), Th e Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law, 628– 53

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