Intro -- Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Chapter One Introduction -- 1. The 'Doctrinal History' of the Science of International Law since Grotius -- 2. Theorizing about the Law of Nations with Political Interests -- 3. A Methodological Note -- Chapter Two The Pufendorfian Doctrine as the Standard -- 1. Late Seventeenth-Century Interpretations of the Grotian Concept of the Voluntary Law of Nations -- 2. Pufendorf 's Opposition to Grotius's Concept of the Voluntary Law of Nations -- 3. Pufendorf Against the Law of Nations Regulating Conduct in War -- 4. Pufendorf Against Grotius's Support of the Concept of Punitive War -- Chapter Three Holsteiner Court Councilor Samuel Rachel's Criticism of Samuel Pufendorf -- 1. The Duchy of Holstein and the Life of Samuel Rachel -- 2. Late Seventeenth-century Proponents of the Concept of the Voluntary Law of Nations -- 3. The Exercitationem juridicam and the Danish Occupation -- 4. Rachel after the Exercitationem juridicam -- Chapter Four Hannoverian Court Councilor Gottfried Leibniz and His Concept of International Legal Person -- 1. The Duchy of Hannover at the End of the Seventeenth Century -- 2. The Peace Conference of Nijmegen and De Jure Suprematus -- 3. Primogeniture and the Concept of Res Juris Gentium -- 4. Leibniz's Two Disciples, Wolff and Vattel, Refuting His Concepts -- Chapter Five Saxon Court Councilor Glafey Pleading for Rules of Conduct in War -- 1. The Duchy-Kingdom of Saxony and the Life of Glafey -- 2. The Görtz-Gyllenborg Affair and Young Glafey's Disquisitio -- 3. In Defense of the Concept of the Voluntary Law of Nations -- 4. War in the Shared Interest of Europe -- Chapter Six Catholic Doctrine of the Law of Nations by Johann Adam Ickstatt -- 1. The Life of Ickstatt and the Political Context of Würzburg-Bamberg.

2. The Modernity of Ickstatt's Doctrine of the Law of Nations -- 3. The Misfortunes of the First Treatise on International Law -- Chapter Seven Prussian Court Councilor Samuel Cocceji's Denial of the Voluntary Law of Nations -- 1. The Prussian Kingdom and the Life of Samuel Cocceji -- 2. Johann Peter von Ludewig's Support of the Concept of the Voluntary Law of Nations -- 3. Cocceji's Attack on Grotius -- Chapter Eight Johann Jacob Moser as Defender of Rights of German States -- 1. Johann Jacob Moser's Life and Its Political Context -- 2. Moser's Concept of the Law of Nations and Practical Methodology -- 3. Moser's Anti-Prussianism -- Chapter Nine Vattel's Doctrine of National Sovereignty in the Context of Saxony-Poland and Neuchâtel -- 1. The Principality of Neuchâtel and the Life of Emer de Vattel -- 2. The Proposal of Transfer of the Principality to the Elector-Prince of Saxony -- 3. Vattel's Doctrine of National Sovereignty -- 4. The Fortunes of Vattel, of Neuchâtel and of Le Droit des Gens -- Chapter Ten Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Emergence of the modern science of international law is usually attributed to Grotius and other somewhat heroic 'founders of international law.' This book offers a more worldly explanation why it was developed mostly by German writers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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