Sovereignty Contested Vattel’s Use of Leibniz, Hobbes, and Pufendorf
(2021)
Book Chapter
Holland, B. (2021). Sovereignty Contested Vattel’s Use of Leibniz, Hobbes, and Pufendorf. In P. Schröder (Ed.), Concepts and Contexts of Vattel's Political and Legal Thought (45-63). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108784009.004
In this chapter, I draw out some implications of Vattel’s description of sovereign states as moral persons. The first section outlines the state-personality tradition from Thomas Hobbes through Samuel Pufendorf, with whom the moral person locution or... Read More about Sovereignty Contested Vattel’s Use of Leibniz, Hobbes, and Pufendorf.