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Peter Schröder: Concepts and contexts of Vattel's political and legal thought - an introduction -- Nadir Weber: in search of a nation : Vattel, Neuchâtel and the Swiss Confederacy -- Ben Holland: Sovereignty contested : Vattel's use of Leibniz, Hobbes and Pufendorf -- Ere Nokkala: The development of the Law of Nations : Wolff and Vattel -- Francesca Iurlaro: Vattel and the Abbé de Choisy : French historiography, piety, and Law of Nations -- Koen Stapelbroek: Vattel and the Seven years' War -- Camilla Boisen: Vattel, the balance of power, and the moral justification of war -- Pablo Kalmanovitz: Regular war, irregulars, and savages -- Antonio Trampus: Constitutionalism -- Gabriella Silvest: Vattel's theory of the social contract -- Mark Somos: Vattel's reception in British America, 1761-1775 -- Nathaniel Boyd: Tradition and revolution : eighteenth century German and French contexts and Vattel's Law of Nations -- Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina: Vattel's Law of Nations in late eighteenth - and early nineteenth-century Greece and Italy -- Marco Barducci: Reception of Vattel in 18th and early 19th century England and Scotland -- Theo Christov: Receptions of Vattel in 19th - and 20th Century international law -- Richard Devetak: Vattel's reception in international relations.

Swiss-born Emer de Vattel (1714-1767) was one of the last eminent thinkers of natural law. He shaped the later part of early-modern natural jurisprudence. At the time, the subject had become a fashionable academic sub-discipline in both jurisprudence and philosophy. Vattel's considerable impact on statesmen, political thinkers, diplomats and lawyers during his lifetime and after rested primarily on the fact that his The Law of Nations (1758) transformed natural law into the basis of a more comprehensive and practicable theory of interstate relations. His ideas served to promote reform programmes whose comprehensive natures spanned the domains of economic reform, constitutionalism and international diplomacy and foreign trade policy. Vattel's conception centred round the principle that defined all sovereign states as nations composed of societies of free men and profoundly influenced legal and political debates in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.