The Power of Language in the Making of International Law: The Word Sovereignty in Bodin and Vattel and the Myth of Westphalia

It is in the intellectual context of the new possibility of philosophy, and the great new challenge facing philosophy, that I place Stéphane Beaulac’s important book. His work takes advantage, in particular, of several of the hard-earned lessons of twentieth-century philosophy and social experience. From the Foreword.