War, states, and international order Alberico Gentili and the foundational myth of the laws of war
"When the sixteenth century jurist Alberico Gentili was pulled back from the dead and celebrated with great fanfare amongst English and Italian international lawyers in the 1870s, not everyone was entirely on board with the festivities. Gustave Rolin-Jaequemyns, a prominent Belgian lawyer who h...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York, NY ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore :
Cambridge University press
2022.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in international relations ;
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| Sumario: | "When the sixteenth century jurist Alberico Gentili was pulled back from the dead and celebrated with great fanfare amongst English and Italian international lawyers in the 1870s, not everyone was entirely on board with the festivities. Gustave Rolin-Jaequemyns, a prominent Belgian lawyer who had been at the forefront of the efforts to codify the laws of war and to professionalize the discipline of international law since the late 1860s, was skeptical. He expressed some strong reservations about the narrative his peers were weaving around the man who had once been a controversial character of his time, the Oxford-based Protestant who defended absolutist rule and Catholic Spain's interests in the midst of the Dutch Revolt. 'We doubt,' he cautioned, 'that it is rigorously accurate to represent the wise lawyer of the Spanish embassy as a sort of inspired apostle of peace"--Sitio web del editor. |
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| Descripción Física: | X, 297 páginas ; 24 cm |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9781009098014 |
