Edmund Burke and the Law of Nations

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It is generally agreed that the modern origins of the law of nations are to be found in two great early seventeenth-century works, Suarez’ Tractatus de legibus ac deo legislatore (1612) and Grotius' De jure belli et pacis (1625). Among their contemporaries, Suarez and Grotius were moderate and mediating men, and they were therefore particularly aware that the basic problems of international diplomacy—the just causes and conduct of war, treatment of prisoners, acquisition of sovereignty and booty through conquest, neutrality or intervention, maritime law, treaties, etc., had become profoundly complicated by the growth of a conscious and extreme political nationalism.

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