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The Law of Nations in Political Thought

A Critical Survey from Vitoria to Hegel

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  • © 2009

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Authors:
  1. Charles Covell

    1. University of Tsukuba, Japan

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-26

  3. Vitoria, Suarez, Gentili and Grotius

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    Pages 27-62

  4. Hobbes and Pufendorf

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    Pages 63-90

  5. Wolff and Vattel

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    Pages 91-118

  6. Locke, Hume and Bentham

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    Pages 119-155

  7. Rousseau, Kant and Hegel

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    Pages 156-196

  8. Conclusion

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    Pages 197-199

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 200-231
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Charles Covell examines the law of nations encountered in the work of major political thinkers from Vitoria to Hegel. He explains how these thinkers contributed to the current theories of natural law and just war and how they played a key role in the elaboration of the principles which are central to the modern system of the law of nations.

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  • University of Tsukuba, Japan

    Charles Covell

About the author

CHARLES COVELL was educated at the City of London School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Since 1990, he has taught law and politics at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. His publications include Kant and the Law of Peace: A Study in the Philosophy of International Law and International Relations (1998) and Hobbes, Realism and the Tradition of International Law (2004).

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