Federal Union, Modern World: The Law of Nations in an Age of Revolutions, 1776-1814Rowman & Littlefield, 1993 - 224 pagina's In this thought-provoking analysis of international relations, the Onufs deepen our understanding of the law of nations in a world of profound change. Federal Union, Modern World relates the emergence of the modern concept of state-societies to the remarkable experiments in constitution-making in the United States and shows how efforts to model a federal union in America influenced the broader relations of European nation-states. Relying on ancient and early modern sources prominent in the minds of the Founders, the authors show how the idea of a federal union was applied to the nations of the world. This profound conceptual change in international relations sundered the law of nations from naturalism and grafted it into modern ideas of liberalism. The formation of the United States as federation, argue the Onufs, "expressed Enlightenment impulses . . . more fully than any contemporaneous developments in Europe." Furthermore, as the Founders attempted to secure a tenable position for their creation, they inspired a shift in international relations theory from natural legal doctrine to the positive law of states. This timely study of international union and disunion informs us as much about the decades of revolution as it does about the context of international relations in our own time. |
Vanuit het boek
Resultaten 1-5 van 87
Pagina 4
... American Revolution and to the vicissitudes of the United States under the Articles of Confederation . In 1789 this league of substantially independent republics reconstituted itself as a federal union that could act together ...
... American Revolution and to the vicissitudes of the United States under the Articles of Confederation . In 1789 this league of substantially independent republics reconstituted itself as a federal union that could act together ...
Pagina 5
... Americans ' republican revolution . Once independent , the American states found their precarious position in the European system a source of constitutional crisis . The founders responded to a dangerous and deteriorating situation by ...
... Americans ' republican revolution . Once independent , the American states found their precarious position in the European system a source of constitutional crisis . The founders responded to a dangerous and deteriorating situation by ...
Pagina 6
... America , " and " the extent and proper structure of the union . " For Aristotle perfecting a polity meant securing the common good . For the American founders the common good depended on creating a more energetic federal government in ...
... America , " and " the extent and proper structure of the union . " For Aristotle perfecting a polity meant securing the common good . For the American founders the common good depended on creating a more energetic federal government in ...
Pagina 7
... American Revolutionaries aspired to join as sovereign equals . This was a world to engage , even to improve , through diplomacy . American diplomats directed their energies toward negotiating treaties , not just to secure military ...
... American Revolutionaries aspired to join as sovereign equals . This was a world to engage , even to improve , through diplomacy . American diplomats directed their energies toward negotiating treaties , not just to secure military ...
Pagina 11
... American founders.18 Vattel brought to the task of writing his treatise some experience in diplomacy , 15 Altogether inappropriately , Hinsley detached the " specialised field of writings on international law " from what he took to be a ...
... American founders.18 Vattel brought to the task of writing his treatise some experience in diplomacy , 15 Altogether inappropriately , Hinsley detached the " specialised field of writings on international law " from what he took to be a ...
Inhoudsopgave
A More Perfect Union | 30 |
II AFTER ARISTOTLE | 35 |
III CHANGES IN KIND | 45 |
The Compound Republic of America | 53 |
II THE THEORY OF CORPORATIONS | 59 |
III AFTER ALTHUSIUS | 65 |
IV ASSOCIATION CONSOCIATION | 70 |
Extent and Proper Structure | 74 |
Foreign Affairs and Federal Union | 123 |
II UNION TRANSFORMED | 128 |
III THE EXPANDING UNION | 135 |
IV APOTHEOSIS | 139 |
CHANGING WORLD | 145 |
The Balance of Power | 149 |
II REPUBLICAN FOREIGN POLICY | 154 |
III END OF THE OLD WORLD | 165 |
II SIZE OF THE UNION | 80 |
III LIMITS AND LEVELS | 88 |
A NEW WORLD ORDER | 93 |
The American State System | 97 |
II COMMERCE | 103 |
III TREATIES | 108 |
IV CONFEDERATION | 113 |
V DIPLOMATIC FRUSTRATIONS | 117 |
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
affairs alliance Althusius American independence American Republic American Revolution Anglo-American argued Aristotle Aristotle's Articles of Confederation balance of power balance-of-power Barlow belligerent Britain British Cambridge citizens civilization claims collapse colonies compound republic conception Confederation Congress consociational Convention corporate crisis diplomacy diplomatic system discussion Edinburgh Review Edmund Burke Empire Enlightenment Europe European system federal Constitution federal republic federal union Federalist foreign policy form of rule founders France French Revolution French Revolutionary French Revolutionary wars function guarantee Hamilton human Ibid idea individual James Madison Jay Treaty Jefferson Jeffersonian John Adams law of nations Letter liberal liberty London Magruder maritime modern Montesquieu moral natural law negotiate neutral rights old world Onuf peace perfect union Philadelphia polis and politeia politeia political arrangements principle progressive promote Pufendorf quoting Ratification reformers relations republican government secure society sovereign Stourzh Thomas tion trade trans United Vattel Vattelian Wolff world order writers York
Populaire passages
Pagina 13 - It is essential to every civil society (civitas) that each member should yield certain of his rights to the general body, and that there should be some authority capable of giving commands, prescribing laws and compelling those who refuse to obey. Such an idea is not to be thought of as between nations. Each independent state claims to be, and actually is, independent of all the others.
Verwijzingen naar dit boek
Legitimacy and Power Politics: The American and French Revolutions in ... Mlada Bukovansky Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2009 |
International Political Thought: An Historical Introduction Edward Keene Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2005 |