C. Covell 
The Law of Nations in Political Thought 
A Critical Survey from Vitoria to Hegel

Charles Covell examines the law of nations encountered in the work of major political thinkers from Vitoria to Hegel. He explains how these thinkers contributed to the current theories of natural law and just war and how they played a key role in the elaboration of the principles which are central to the modern system of the law of nations.

Table of Content

Preface Introduction Vitoria, Suarez, Gentili and Grotius Hobbes and Pufendorf Wolff and Vattel Locke, Hume and Bentham Rousseau, Kant and Hegel Conclusion Notes and References Bibliography Index

About the author

CHARLES COVELL was educated at the City of London School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Since 1990, he has taught law and politics at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. His publications include
Kant and the Law of Peace: A Study in the Philosophy of International Law and International Relations (1998) and
Hobbes, Realism and the Tradition of International Law (2004).