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Part 1: Diplomacy and the conduct of foreign policy
Diplomacy and the Study of International Relations
by D. P. HEATLEY
Part 2: The literature of international relations
1. Introductory
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366223Diplomacy and the Study of International Relations — Part 2: The literature of international relationsD. P. HEATLEY


THE LITERATURE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Contents

  • 3. Juristic literature: Development of International Understandings as 'Law'
    • 1.
    (a) Wheaton, History of the Law of Nations. His general conclusions
    (b) Nys, Les Origines du Droit International
    (c) Walker, A History of the Law of Nations (to the Peace of Westphalia)
    • 2. Treatises of International Law
      Those influential for each age
      Vattel: his standpoint
      Fox on Vattel
      Vattel appealed to on contraband
      Sir James Mackintosh on Vattel and his predecessors
      Martens (G. F. von): his positivism
      Importance assigned by him to treaties
      His interpretation of the balance of power
      Effect of the Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon
      Wheaton: an estimate of his Elements of International Law
      More recent writers
      Sir Robert Phillimore: the value of his Commentaries to the student of History
      His interpretation of the balance of power
      Sir Travers Twiss: his 'Juridical Review' of the results of recent wars, and his presentation of treaties
      His tribute to Grotius
      His estimate of the effects of the French Revolution
      The parts of his work of value to the student of History
      W. Hall: his attachment to facts, and historical treatment of subjects
      Causes célebres du droit des gens
      Sir Frederick Pollock on international law and the government of the Society of Nations
  • 4. Illustrations of controversial literature
    'The Sovereignty of the Sea'
    Samuel Pepys and 'our making of strangers strike to us at sea'
    Mr. S. R. Gardiner on the assertion of the sovereignty of the sea: a 'monstrous' claim
    Its considerable importance
    Gentili and Spanish claims
    Three British writers
    • 1. William Welwod
      The Sea-Law of Scotland: a book extremely rare
      An Abridgement of all Sea-Lawes: its scope
      Its chapter 'Of the Community and Propriety of the Seas'.
      An allusion to Grotius's Mare Liberum
      Continuity and identity
      Welwod's distinction: Welwod and Grotius
      Welwod's De Dominio Maris
      Seldcn and Welwod
    • 2. Selden
      The controversy a 'battle of books'; and more
      Grotius's Mare Liberum and Selden's Mare Clausum
    • 3. Boroughs: The Sovereignty of the British Seas
      The occasion of writing it.
      The occasion of publishing it
      An analysis of the work
      The riches of the British seas
      The need for asserting rights, and for learning lessons from the Hollanders
      'The most precious Jewell of his Maiesties Crowne'
  • 5. Treaties
    'Les archives des nations'
    The relation of a treaty to 'the law'
    Collections of Treaties: General, British, Originals of British Treaties
  • 6. Maps; and their historical background
    The Map of Europe by Treaty: its high value
  • 7. Supplementary reading
    • 1. (a) Machiavelli
      (b) Guicciardini
      (c) Aphorismes Civill and Militarie
      Thucydides and Tacitus
    • 2. 'Anti-Machiavel'
    • 3. (a) Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell
      (b) Clarendon, History of the Rebellion
      (c) Oliver Cromwell's foreign policy
    • 4. Gentilis, (a) De Legationibus, and (b) De Abusu Mendacii
    • 5. (a) Vera, Le Parfait Ambassadeur (traduit de l'Espagnol par le Sieur Lancelot)
      (b) Wicquefort, L'Ambassadeur et ses Fonctions
      Translation by John Digby
      (c) Callieres, De la Manière de negocier avec les Souverains
      (d) Martens (Charles de), Le Guide Diplomatique
      Scope of the work
      (e) Satow, A Guide to Diplomatic Practice
    • 6. (a) Frederick the Great, L'Histoire de mon Temps
      When alliances may be broken
      The interest of the State and of rulers: seizing the occasion
      (b) Clausewitz, On War
      Allies and the means of defence
      Influence of the political object on the military
      War an instrument of policy
    • 7. Sorel, L'Europe et la Révolution française
    • 8. Malmesbury, Diaries and Correspondence
    • 9. Bernard, Four Lectures on Subjects connected with Diplomacy
    • 10. Holland, Studies in International Law
    • 11. Parliamentary Reports and Papers on diplomatic practice and procedure
  • 8. Literature of recent British diplomacy
    Historical Works
    The Crown, Ministers, Parliament, and the conduct of Foreign Policy
    The Letters of Queen Victoria
    Memoirs and Biographies
    Parliamentary and State Papers
  • 9. Literature of international ethics
    • 1. Citizenship of the world
    • 2. The mediaeval ideal
    • 3. Projects of Perpetual Peace
    L'Abbé de Saint-Pierre, Projet de la Paix perpétuelle
    The link in the Projects of Saint-Pierre, Rousseau, Bentham, and Kant
    Rousseau
    - The problem expressed in terms of the Social Contract
    - Rousseau and the study of international relations
    - His contribution to the promulgation of Projects of Perpetual Peace
    Bentham
    - Two 'fundamental propositions' of his 'Plan'
    - The establishment of a common tribunal
    - Colonies and trade and war
    - The international sanction
    - The place of Bentham's Plan in his scheme of thought
    Kant
    - His insistence on conditions to be satisfied
    - The essay 'Perpetual Peace', and Kant's political thought
    - The agreement of Rousseau and Kant : the supra-national disposition
    Politics and Ethics
    - Conclusions of two recent English thinkers
    The Family of Nations
    Hooker on the Law of Nations
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