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- War, States, and International Order
- Cambridge Studies in International Relations: 159
- War, States, and International Order
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Context, Reception, and the Study of Great Thinkers in International Relations
- Part I Gentili’s De iure belli in Its Original Context
- 2 Alberico Gentili’s De iure belli
- 3 Grounding an Absolutist Approach to the Laws of War
- Part II Gentili’s De iure belli and the Myth of “Modern War”
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in International Relations
2 - Alberico Gentili’s De iure belli
Between Bodin and the Reason of State Tradition
from Part I - Gentili’s De iure belli in Its Original Context
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 July 2022
- War, States, and International Order
- Cambridge Studies in International Relations: 159
- War, States, and International Order
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Context, Reception, and the Study of Great Thinkers in International Relations
- Part I Gentili’s De iure belli in Its Original Context
- 2 Alberico Gentili’s De iure belli
- 3 Grounding an Absolutist Approach to the Laws of War
- Part II Gentili’s De iure belli and the Myth of “Modern War”
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in International Relations
Summary
The purpose of this chapter is to clarify some of the disagreements that have arisen regarding Gentili’s ideas by closely examining Gentili’s use of sources in De iure belli (DIB). More specifically, through this focus on sources, the chapter seeks to resituate Gentili’s DIB beyond the immediate legal debates that have conventionally framed its analysis, and to place the text within the broader political thought of the period. Gentili’s text, the chapter claims, is particularly noteworthy in its attempt to straddle the legal and political debates of its epoch, looking beyond legal sources and turning to various contemporary political writers in what was quite a remarkable move at the time.
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- War, States, and International OrderAlberico Gentili and the Foundational Myth of the Laws of War, pp. 51 - 90Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022