War, States, and International Order: Alberico Gentili and the Foundational Myth of the Laws of War

  • 7h 27m
  • Claire Vergerio
  • Cambridge University Press
  • 2022
Under contemporary international humanitarian law, this right is essentially restricted to sovereign states. It has been conventionally assumed that this arrangement derives from the ideas of the late-sixteenth century jurist Alberico Gentili.