Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction -- Context, reception, and the study of great thinkers in international relation -- Alberico Gentili's De iure belli : between Bodin and the reason of state tradition -- Grounding an absolutist approach to the laws of war -- Unearthing the 'true founder' of international law -- Constructing the history of the 'modern' laws of war -- Carl Schmitt and the entrenchment of the myth -- Conclusion…”

“…Alberico Gentili Lectures…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Niccolò Machiavelli's international legal thought : culture, contingency, and construction / Francisco de Vitoria : a redesign of global order on the threshold of Middle Ages to modern times / Francisco Suárez S.J. on the end of peaceful order among states and systematic doctrinal scholarship / Jean Bodin on international law / Alberico Gentili : sovereignity, natural law, and the system of Roman civil law / Althusius : back to the future / Hugo Grotius : on the conquest of utopia by systematic reasoning / Orders in disorder : the question of an international state of nature in Hobbes and Rousseau / The international legal argument in Spinoza / States, as ethico-political subjects of international law : the relationship between theory and practice in the international politics of Samuel Pufendorf / Christian Wolff : system as an episdoe? …”