Bulletin n. 1/2012 | ||
June 2012 | ||
Jean-Michel Guieu |
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Les juristes internationalistes français, l’Europe et la paix à la Belle Époque | ||
in Relations internationales , n°149 , 2012 , 27-41 | ||
In a period characterized by the progressive rise of international tensions and the new interest of states for the organization of peace (The Hague Peace Conferences of 1899 and 1907), French international legal scholars sought to impose Law as the best way to regulate international relations and maintain international peace. They developed the ideas of the growing interdependence between states within the framework of an international community, the economic and moral exhaustion of the European societies under the « armed peace », the necessity to civilize war and having recourse to international arbitration. But respectful of national sovereignty, their ambition was not to question the interstate society of their time. | ||