International Law in Antiquity

This study of the origins of international law combinestechniques of intellectual history and historiography toinvestigate the earliest developments of the law of nations.The book examines the sources, processes, and doctrines ofinternational legal obligation in antiquity to reevaluate thecritical attributes of international law. David J. Bedermanfocuses on three essential areas in which law influencedancient State relations – diplomacy, treaty-making, andwarfare – in a detailed analysis of international relationsin the Near East (2800–700 BCE), the Greek city-States(500–338 BCE), and Rome (358–168 BCE). Containing up-to-dateliterature and archeological evidence, this study does notmerely catalogue instances of recognition by ancient Statesof these seminal features of...
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