The Rights of War and Peace: Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to Kant
This book is the first fully historical account of the formative period of modern theories of international law. It sets the scene with an extensive history of the theory of international relations from antiquity down to the seventeenth century. Professor Richard Tuck examines the arguments over the moral basis for war and international aggression, and links the debates to the writings of the great political theorists such as Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Kant.
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The Rights of War and Peace: Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to Kant
This book is the first fully historical account of the formative period of modern theories of international law. It sets the scene with an extensive history of the theory of international relations from antiquity down to the seventeenth century. Professor Richard Tuck examines the arguments over the moral basis for war and international aggression, and links the debates to the writings of the great political theorists such as Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Kant.
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The Rights of War and Peace: Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to Kant

The Rights of War and Peace: Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to Kant

by Richard Tuck
The Rights of War and Peace: Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to Kant

The Rights of War and Peace: Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to Kant

by Richard Tuck

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This book is the first fully historical account of the formative period of modern theories of international law. It sets the scene with an extensive history of the theory of international relations from antiquity down to the seventeenth century. Professor Richard Tuck examines the arguments over the moral basis for war and international aggression, and links the debates to the writings of the great political theorists such as Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Kant.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780198207535
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 01/28/2002
Pages: 250
Product dimensions: 8.60(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.80(d)

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Harvard University

Table of Contents

PrefaceIntroduction1. Humanism2. Scholasticism3. Hugo Grotius4. Thomas Hobbes5. Samuel Pufendorf6. From Locke to Vattel7. Rousseau and KantConclusionIndex
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