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Intro; Contents; Notes on Contributors; The Legacy of Vattel's Droit des gens: Contexts, Concepts, Reception, Translation and Diffusion; The Droit des gens: Its Character and Its Multifarious Legacy; Vattel and His Context: The "Law of Nations", Commerce and Human "Perfection"; Trade, the State and the Balance of Power; Vattel's Concepts, Small States and the Reception of the Droit des gens; A Note on the Text and Editions; Part I Vattel's Ideas and His Context; Vattel as an Intermediary Between the Economic Society of Berne and Poland; Introduction
Vattel, Brühl and the Mniszechs (1760-1763)Vattel, Elie Bertrand's Economic Grand Tour and the Spirit of Legislation Prize-Essay Competition; The Courland Affair: Vattel as a Diplomat and International Lawyer; Ad Vatelum, Doctissimum de Jure Gentium Scriptorem: Vattel and Stanisław Konarski; "A Poor Imitation of Grotius and Pufendorf?" Biographical Uncertainties and the Laborious Genesis of Vattel's Droit des gens; Biographers and Biographies of Vattel; The Origins of the Droit des gens: The Critique of Wolff
The Citizen's Right to Leave His Country: The Concept of Exile in Vattel's Droit des gensIntroduction; The Concept of Exile in the Droit des gens; The Abandonment of the Country: Between Morality and Right; The Right of the Citizen to "Quit His Country"; The Nature of Exile; Conclusion; The Foundations of Vattel's "System" of Politics and the Context of the Seven Years' War: Moral Philosophy, Luxury and the Constitutional Commercial State; Introduction: Reconsidering Vattel's "System"; The Creation of an Anglophile; "Perfection": Virtue, Obligation and Luxury in Vattel's Political Thought
The Constituting and Constituted Nation and Vattel on BritainVattel's Droit Des Gens, the Balance of Power and the Utrecht Settlement; Moreau's Sceptical Monarchism, the Observateur Hollandois and the Utrecht Settlement; "Quelques arpents de neige": Acadia as a Cause for War; Rival Views of French Foreign Policy; Conclusion: Dutch and Venetian "Vattelian" Perspectives on Utrecht; The French Reception of Vattel's Droit des gens: Politics and Publishing Strategies; Introduction; The "Londres" and "Leiden" Editions of Le droit des gens: Telltale Fears
Le droit des gens in the French Political and Cultural DebateConclusion; Part II The Reception of Vattel in Italy and Elsewhere; 'Good Government' and the Tradition of Small States: The Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Reception of the Droit des gens; Introduction: The Mediterranean as a Seedbed for Vattel's Droit des gens; Vattel's Concept of 'Good Government' and the Italian City-State Tradition; Vattel in Corsica: Between Genoa and France; The Bern Manuscript: Re-contextualising Small States; From Göttingen to the Congress of Vienna: Vattel, Martens and the Survival of the Small States; Vattel in the Republic of Genoa: Between Theory and Practice
Vattel, Brühl and the Mniszechs (1760-1763)Vattel, Elie Bertrand's Economic Grand Tour and the Spirit of Legislation Prize-Essay Competition; The Courland Affair: Vattel as a Diplomat and International Lawyer; Ad Vatelum, Doctissimum de Jure Gentium Scriptorem: Vattel and Stanisław Konarski; "A Poor Imitation of Grotius and Pufendorf?" Biographical Uncertainties and the Laborious Genesis of Vattel's Droit des gens; Biographers and Biographies of Vattel; The Origins of the Droit des gens: The Critique of Wolff
The Citizen's Right to Leave His Country: The Concept of Exile in Vattel's Droit des gensIntroduction; The Concept of Exile in the Droit des gens; The Abandonment of the Country: Between Morality and Right; The Right of the Citizen to "Quit His Country"; The Nature of Exile; Conclusion; The Foundations of Vattel's "System" of Politics and the Context of the Seven Years' War: Moral Philosophy, Luxury and the Constitutional Commercial State; Introduction: Reconsidering Vattel's "System"; The Creation of an Anglophile; "Perfection": Virtue, Obligation and Luxury in Vattel's Political Thought
The Constituting and Constituted Nation and Vattel on BritainVattel's Droit Des Gens, the Balance of Power and the Utrecht Settlement; Moreau's Sceptical Monarchism, the Observateur Hollandois and the Utrecht Settlement; "Quelques arpents de neige": Acadia as a Cause for War; Rival Views of French Foreign Policy; Conclusion: Dutch and Venetian "Vattelian" Perspectives on Utrecht; The French Reception of Vattel's Droit des gens: Politics and Publishing Strategies; Introduction; The "Londres" and "Leiden" Editions of Le droit des gens: Telltale Fears
Le droit des gens in the French Political and Cultural DebateConclusion; Part II The Reception of Vattel in Italy and Elsewhere; 'Good Government' and the Tradition of Small States: The Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Reception of the Droit des gens; Introduction: The Mediterranean as a Seedbed for Vattel's Droit des gens; Vattel's Concept of 'Good Government' and the Italian City-State Tradition; Vattel in Corsica: Between Genoa and France; The Bern Manuscript: Re-contextualising Small States; From Göttingen to the Congress of Vienna: Vattel, Martens and the Survival of the Small States; Vattel in the Republic of Genoa: Between Theory and Practice