Diplomacy and the Study of International Relations/Part 2

THE LITERATURE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Contents


 * 1. Introductory. The scope of the study of diplomacy
 * Le Guide Diplomatique


 * 2. General guide
 * Les Archives de l'Histoire de France


 * 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