The Rights of War and Peace : Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to Kant
by
Richard Tuck
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0198207530
ISBN-13
9780198207535
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Clarendon Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 11th, 1999
Print length
250 Pages
Weight
512 grams
Dimensions
22.50 x 14.90 x 2.20 cms
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A historical account of the formative period of modern theories of international law. After setting the scene from antiquity to the 17th century, the author examines arguments over the moral basis for war and international aggression, linking the debates to the writings of the great theorists.
The Rights of War and Peace 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 Tuck then 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. This is not only an account of international law: as Professor Tuck shows, ideas about inter-state relations were central to the formation of modern liberal political theory, for the best example of the kind of agent which liberalism presupposes was provided by the modern state. As a result, the book illuminates the presuppositions behind much current political theory, and puts into a new perspective the connection between liberalism and imperialism.
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