Taming the Leviathan? : the reason of state in international law

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dc.contributor.authorVADI, Valentina
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-03T11:39:55Z
dc.date.available2025-03-03T11:39:55Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.descriptionPublished online: 18 December 2024en
dc.description.abstractIn humanist political theory, the reason of state mostly described a course of action that did not follow the usual criteria of law but rather what was useful. Nonetheless, a broader understanding of the reason of state focused on the community’s core values. Such common interests (ius status or ragion di stato) could be contrasted with, and balanced against, those of the international community (ius gentium or ragione delle genti). According to the latter view, the reason of state did not abolish the rule of law. Rather, it indicated state governance to preserve public safety (conservare lo stato). The article investigates how Alberico Gentili (1552–1608), a religious refugee and Regius Professor at the University of Oxford, transplanted the reason of state from political theory into the law of nations while subjecting it to natural law (ius naturalis), which can be compared to the contemporary notion of jus cogens.en
dc.identifier.citationJournal of the history of international law, 2024, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 423-460en
dc.identifier.doi10.1163/15718050-bja10111
dc.identifier.endpage460en
dc.identifier.issn1388-199X
dc.identifier.issn1571-8050
dc.identifier.issue4en
dc.identifier.startpage423en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/78162
dc.identifier.volume26en
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dc.publisherBrill Nijhoffen
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of the history of international lawen
dc.titleTaming the Leviathan? : the reason of state in international lawen
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