Trust in Early Modern International Political Thought, 1598-1713

ISBN-13: 9781316627488 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 292 str.

Peter Schroder

Opis

This book examines how trust relates to the main political concepts - sovereignty, reason of state, and natural law - of seventeenth-century discourse.

Spis treści

Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Alberico Gentili (1552–1608): new ways of posing the problem of war and interstate relations; 1.1 Confessional strife and the question of trustworthiness among European states; 1.2 A new concept of the enemy and war: trust among equals; 1.3 Pirates and other enemies hors la loi: the untrustworthy foes; 2. Plans for universal peace in Europe: the limits of a balance of power; 2.1 Sully (1559–1641) and the Grand Dessein; 2.2 Crucé (1590–1648) and the Nouveau Cynée; 3. Jus naturae et gentium: the limits of a juridical order; 3.1 Hugo Grotius (1583–1645); 3.2 Thomas Hobbes (1588–1673); 3.3 Samuel Pufendorf (1632–94); 4. The struggle for hegemony and the erosion of trust; 4.1 Leibniz (1646–1716) and his guerre des plumes against Louis XIV's claims to hegemony; 4.2 'Triomphe de la Foi: religion and interstate relations after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes; 4.3 The Abbé de Saint-Pierre's (1658–1743) project for peace and his challenge to early modern statecraft; 5. The doux commerce and interstate relations: trust and mistrust in the emerging economic discourse; Conclusion. The thing which was not; Bibliography.