Published in 1625, this three-book treatise grounds the conduct of war and relations among states in a natural law that binds sovereigns even absent a common earthly superior. It systematized the emerging law of nations and is standardly credited as the founding text of international law as a distinct discipline.
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Source Encyclopaedia Britannica
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De Jure Belli ac Pacis (On the Law of War and Peace)
Encyclopaedia Britannica
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