A Normative Approach to War: Peace, War, and Justice in Hugo Grotius.

American Political Science Review | September 1, 1994| | Copyright

Once the honorific "father of international law," Hugo Grotius remains a figure of considerable interest--not only to legal scholars but to students of international relations and the history of political thought. Grotius published the first edition of his great treatise, De jure belli ac pacis libri tres (hereafter JBP) in 1625, during the last and greatest of Europe's religious wars. His aim was to identify all legal rules (laws are rules of moral action imposing obligation) that might limit both the occasions for, and the effects of, organized violence, whether public or ...

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

WITNEY: A QUIET TOWN IN UNQUIET TIMES.(Witney, a village near Oxford, England)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review ; ...importance in national affairs from the mid-1000s onwards. Stigand, Bishop of Winchester, began the construction of the Palace...of Canterbury to that of Winchester (as had been done for Stigand). When this did not come to pass, Henry defected to Matilda...
Captain Moonlight
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday ; ...charge of his outreach programme. 15. Why has the Archbishop of Canterbury got a pagan first name? I make him the first since Stigand, which is not a happy precedent. 16. Edwina Currie will have some surprising news about Lord Howe of Aberavon. 17. Can...
Louts attack Canute's church
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London ; ...Ashingdon, close to where Canute defeated Edmund Ironside before succeeding him as King of England. The church's first priest, Stigand, was made Bishop of Winchester in 1047 before becoming Archbishop of Canterbury and crowning William the Conqueror. Since...
The big five: a renowed big-game hunter ponders the question: which of the Big Five is the most dangerous?
Magazine article from: Sports Afield ; ...dangerous-game hunters face. The opinions of famous old-time hunters such as A.H. Neumann, F.C. Selous, C.H. Stigand, D.D. Lyell, and others aren't particularly relevant today except from an anecdotal point of view. If these hunters...
WALK of the week: Stepping stones to 1,000 years of art, architecture and prayer
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London ; ...Chichester is the only English cathedral which can be seen from the sea. In 1076, work on a new cathedral began under Bishop Stigand. Enough of the building was finished by 1108 for it to be dedicated, and despite delays caused by fires, much had been completed...
Harold: The Last Anglo-Saxon King. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History Today ; ...succession, and almost certain Harold was crowned at Westminster by Aeldred, Archbishop of York, and not by the invalid Stigand, as the Normans later claimed. Walker's account of the Battle of Hastings is carried by its own impetus, and his belief...
One Hundred Years of Violoncello: A History of Technique and Performance Practice, 1740-1840.(Review)
Magazine article from: Notes ; ...cello have been translations (Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski, The Violoncello and Its History, trans. Isobella S. E. Stigand [1894; reprint, New York: Da Capo Press, 1968]; Lev Ginsberg, History of the Violoncello, trans. Tanya Tchistyakova...
Patriarchal symbolic order: the syllables of power as accentuated in Waswahili poetry.
Magazine article from: Journal of Pan African Studies ; ...theological discussions among the Muslim Swahili, and early researchers and scholars like Rev. W.E. Taylor and C.H. Stigand viewed the poem as the greatest religious classic of the race (Hichens 1972:9). Several literary scholars and researchers...
Weaving a whole new story from an old tapestry.(BOOKS)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times ; ...through Harold's broken promise to William (even though it was made under duress), through Archbishop of Canterbury Stigand's ungodly actions, through various other ways. All of this is pure interpretation, but it is cleverly and persuasively...
Books: The man who really killed King Harold 1066: The Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry By Andrew Bridgeford FOURTH ESTATE pounds 20 pounds 18.50 (P&P FREE) 08700 798 897
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday ; ...obtained. Though the tapestry shows Harold's accession was legal, the presence at the coronation of the disgraced Archbishop Stigand (who was not there) showed that Harold's perjury tainted the whole kingdom. One of Bridgeford's main contentions is...

Find more facts and information related to the article "A Normative Approach to War: Peace, War, and ..."