System, order, and international law : the early history of international legal thought from Machiavelli to Hegel / Stefan Kadelbach, Thomas Kleinlein, and David Roth-Isigkeit.

For many centuries, thinkers have tried to understand and to conceptualize political and legal order beyond the boundaries of sovereign territories. Their concepts, deeply entangled with ideas of theology, state formation, and human nature, form the bedrock of todays theoretical discourses on intern...

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