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SECONDARY STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF PEACE & WAR (updated 2/8/08)

"Reception of the Classical Tradition in International Law: Grotius' _De Jure Belli ac Pacis_", by David J. Bederman.
"Grotius on International Law", by Sanderson Beck.
Hugo Grotius: Naturalist, Eclectic, or Theonomist?, by William Greene.
"The origin of property: Ockham, Grotius, Pufendorf, and some others", by John Kilcullen.
In 'Rules for the World Stage', Martha Nussbaum invokes the spirit of Grotius in judging the present state of international affairs (2003).
Brought back to life in the spring of 2003, what might Grotius say about the invasion of Iraq?
"Grotius on Citizenship and Political Community", by Willem Maas. See Maas' website for more Grotius info & links.
Jon Miller provides a useful introduction to the life and thought of "Hugo Grotius" in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Larry May presents an important study of "Grotius and Contingent Pacifism," in Studies in the History of Ethics, February 2006. (Posted 11/18/06)
Benjamin Straumann, "The Right to Punish as a Just Cause of War in Hugo Grotius’ Natural Law," Studies in the History of Ethics, February 2006. (Posted 11/30/06)
"A Grotian Tradition of Theory And Practice? Grotius, Law and Moral Skepticism in the Thought of Hedley Bull," by Benedict W. Kingsbury, 17 Quinnipac L. Rev. 3 (1997). (Posted 12/13/07)
Commentaries on Utopian War," by Philip Dust, Moreana, no. 37, Feb 1973, pp. 31-40, is useful background reading for Grotius studies. (Posted 2/8/08)
The three stages in the evolution of the law of nations, by Cornelis van Vollenhoven, Martinus Nijhoff, 1919, is now online, courtesy of Google Books and the University of Michigan Library. (Posted 8/4/08)

"A Commentary on the 'Perpetual Peace' of Immanuel Kant", by Caspian Richards.
Moto Saji's "Revisiting Kant on Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism" examines Kant's cosmopolitan political thought in light of his Critique of Pure Reason.
"Kant's Perpetual Peace and Cosmopolitanism," by Louis Pojman, Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol 36, Spring 2005.

Lloyd Steffen, "Gandhi's Non-violent Resistance: A Justified Use of Force?"

"Clausewitz vs. the Scholar: Martin Van Creveld's Expanded Theory Of War," by K. M. French.

Updated 3/25/06. More coming soon...

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