War, the State and International Law in Seventeenth-Century Europe

by Olaf Asbach and Peter Schröder

One of the great paradoxes of post-medieval Europe, is why instead of bringing peace to a disorganised and violent world, modernity instead produced a seemingly endless string of conflicts and social upheavals. Why was it that the foundation and institutionalisation of secured peace and the rule of law seemed to go hand-in-hand with the proliferation of war and the violation of individual and collective rights? In order to try to better understand...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032923547
• ISBN13: 9781032923543
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages