Federal Union, Modern World: The Law of Nations in an Age of Revolutions, 1776-1814

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Rowman & 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.

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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
IV UNION AND INDEPENDENCE
174
The New Law of Nations
185
II NEUTRAL RIGHTS
190
III THE EXAMINATION
197
IV NEUTRALITY AND THE WAR OF 1812
211
V FEDERAL UNION MODERN WORLD
218
Index
221
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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.

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