Drawing on the development of 'Grotian' scholarship in international legal and political thought, this book seeks to ascertain precisely what the term has meant

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This book considers the background to the treatises, their content and significance, and what Grotius actually knew about Southeast Asian polities or Portuguese

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This book investigates the intellectual history of the laws of war. It reconstructs the distinctive ways of thinking about the legal regulation of war in histor