Reason of State: Law, Prerogative and Empire

ISBN-13: 9781107461741 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 314 str.

Thomas Poole

Opis

An original work on the important idea of reason of state and British and imperial history and constitutional theory.

Spis treści

1. The safety of the people: from prerogative to reason of state; 2. Prerogative in early modern state theory; 3. Republican principles of state and empire; 4. Jealousy of trade: reason of state and commercial empire; 5. Reason of state in the first age of global imperialism; 6. Reason of state and the legislating empire; 7. War, law, and the modern state; 8. Rights, risk, and reason of state.