Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Treaties
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- PART I Peace treaties and international law from Lodi to Versailles (1454–1920)
- PART II Thinking peace: voices from the past
- PART III Thinking peace: towards a better future
- PART IV Making peace: aspects of treaty practice
- 15 The ius foederis re-examined: the Peace of Westphalia and the constitution of the Holy Roman Empire
- 16 The peace treaties of the Ottoman Empire with European Christian powers
- 17 Peace and prosperity: commercial aspects of peacemaking
- 18 The 1871 Peace Treaty between France and Germany and the 1919 Peace Treaty of Versailles
- PART V Conclusion
- Appendix
- Index
17 - Peace and prosperity: commercial aspects of peacemaking
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Treaties
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- PART I Peace treaties and international law from Lodi to Versailles (1454–1920)
- PART II Thinking peace: voices from the past
- PART III Thinking peace: towards a better future
- PART IV Making peace: aspects of treaty practice
- 15 The ius foederis re-examined: the Peace of Westphalia and the constitution of the Holy Roman Empire
- 16 The peace treaties of the Ottoman Empire with European Christian powers
- 17 Peace and prosperity: commercial aspects of peacemaking
- 18 The 1871 Peace Treaty between France and Germany and the 1919 Peace Treaty of Versailles
- PART V Conclusion
- Appendix
- Index
Summary
Introduction
Peacemaking may be seen in either narrow or broad terms. In narrow terms, peacemaking consists of the settlement of the particular issue or issues over which the war in question has been fought. Peacemaking in the broader sense may be taken to refer to the full ‘normalisation’ of relations between the erstwhile enemy states. ‘Normalisation’ is not a legal term of art; it comprises a range of matters, from cultural ties and diplomatic links to tourism and trade. The present discussion will focus on commercial ties.
The relationship between the political and economic aspects of peacemaking, i.e. between peacemaking in the narrow and in the broad senses, has a certain intrinsic interest. But it also has a deeper significance: as a means of tracking or mirroring the changes that have taken place in the legal nature of war itself. This discussion will identify several historical phases. First there were the medieval and early modern periods, in which the medieval philosophy of just and unjust wars lay at the basis of legal thought about war and peace. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, war was thought of in different terms, as a form of civil litigation. A third phase is comprised by the nineteenth century (up to World War I), when war was seen as a tool for the pursuit of national interests, largely to be wielded at the will of the individual states.
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- Peace Treaties and International Law in European HistoryFrom the Late Middle Ages to World War One, pp. 365 - 381Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004
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