Concepts and Contexts of Vattel's Political and Legal Thought

Concepts and contexts of Vattel's political and legal thought – an introduction Peter Schröder; Part I. Historical and Intellectual Contexts: 1. In search of a nation: Vattel, Neuchâtel and the Swiss confederacy Nadir Weber; 2. Sovereignty contested: Vattel's use of Leibniz, Hobbes and Pufendorf Ben Holland; 3. The development of the law of nations: Wolff and Vattel Ere Nokkala; 4. Vattel and the Abbe de Choisy: French historiography, piety and law of nations Francesca Iurlaro; 5. Vattel and the seven years' war Koen Stapelbroek; Part II. Concepts: 6. Vattel, the balance of power, and the moral justification of war Camilla Boisen; 7. Regular war, irregulars, and savages Pablo Kalmanovitz; 8. Constitutionalism Antonio Trampus; 9. Vattel's theory of the social contract Gabriella Silvestrini; Part III. Receptions: 10. Vattel's reception in British America, 1761–1775 Mark Somos; 11. Tradition and revolution: eighteenth century German and French contexts and Vattel's law of nations Nathaniel Boyd; 12. Vattel's law of nations in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Greece and Italy Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina; 13. Reception of Vattel in 18th and early 19th century England and Scotland Marco Barducci; 14. Receptions of Vattel in 19th- and 20th-century international law Theodore Christov; 15. Vattel's reception in international relations Richard Devetak.