PART 1 THE AGE OF THE PRINCE 4
I. INTRODUCTION: THE WORLD BY LAND 4
THE RIGHT TO WAGE WAR 4
STATE SOVEREIGNTY 7
THE FAMILY OF NATIONS 11
COMMUNITIES IN REVOLT 14
EXPELLED AND HERETICAL RULERS 18
INFIDELS 20
THE HANSEATIC LEAGUE 24
ELECTIVE MONARCHIES 26
QUESTIONS OF PRECEDENCE AND DIGNITY 28
TITLES 32
LANGUAGE 35
NOTES TO CHAPTER I 35
Ⅱ. THE WORLD BY SEA 40
DOMINIUM MARIS 40
PRESENT LIMIT OF TERRITORIAL WATERS 53
NOTES TO CHAPTER II 59
Ⅲ. INTERCOURSE: IN PEACE 61
EQUILIBRIUM 61
INTERVENTION 69
DIPLOMATIC INTERCOURSE 73
Officials 73
Classes of Diplomatic Agents 82
Consuls 83
The Practice of Legation 85
Diplomatic Privileges 88
International Negotiation 94
NOTES TO CHAPTER Ⅲ 105
Ⅳ. INTERCOURSE: IN WAR 107
BELLUM JUSTUM 107
RIGHTS OF A JUST BELLIGERENT 119
METHODS OF WAR 121
MILITARY SERVICES, Ⅰ 124
ARMIES 124
CONTRIBUTIONS AND REQUISITIONS 143
FORCED WORK BY CIVILIANS 148
TREATMENT OF THE WOUNDED 149
MILITARY SERVICES, Ⅱ 152
NAVIES 152
LEVIES AND SUBSIDIES FROM NEUTRAL POWERS 162
MILITARY SERVICES, Ⅲ 168
AIR FORCES 168
REPRISALS AS A MEASURE OF REDRESS SHORT OFWAR 173
Reprisals under Letters of Marque and Reprisal 173
Obsolescence of Reprisals under Letters of Marque and Reprisal 177
Modern Reprisals 179
Reprisals and the League of Nations 182
NOTES TO CHAPTER Ⅳ 185
PART Ⅱ THE AGE OF THE JUDGE 193
Ⅴ. TEMPERAMENTA 193
INTRODUCTION 193
DECLARATION OF WAR 194
ENEMY INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR PROPERTY IN WARTIME 196
DROIT DAUBAINE 198
THE RIGHT OF INDIVIDUALS To EMIGRATE 201
THE FREEDOM OF COAST FISHERIES 203
THE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS OF WAR 204
NOTES TO CHAPTER V 209
Ⅵ. THE WORLD OF COMMERCE 211
THE COMMERCIAL COMITY OF NATIONS 211
THE OLD COMMERCIAL SYSTEMS 219
NOTES TO CHAPTER Ⅵ 226
Ⅶ. NEUTRALITY 229
THF MARITIME POSITION 229
THE RIGHT OF PASSAGE 234
PORTS, HARBOURS, AND TERRITORIAL WATERS 241
NOTES TO CHAPTER VII 247
Ⅷ. THE EQUALITY OF STATES 248
THE EQUALITY OF STATES 248
ASSERTION of EQUALITY OF RIGHT BETWEEN NEUTRAL AND BELLIGERENT 261
NOTES TO CHAPTER VIII 267
Ⅸ. MARITIME THEORY AND PRACTICE 268
CAPTURE AT SEA 268
TREATMENT OF PRIZE 278
SAFE-CONDUCT IN SPECIAL CASES 281
CONTRABAND OF WAR 281
TRAFFIC IN ARMS 291
BLOCKADE 296
THE EVILS AND ABOLITION OF PRIVATEERING 308
THE BRITISH PRIZE COURT 311
Atmosphere of the British Prize Court 318
The Conception of Enemy Character 320
Trading with the Enemy 324
Presumption of Enemy Character 325
COLONIAL TRADE AND THE RULE OF THE WAR OF 1756 325
Port-to-Port Trade on a Belligerent Coast 329
NOTES TO CHAPTER IX 330
Ⅹ. CHANGES OF NATIONALITY 333
MASS CHANGE, THE PLEBISCITE 333
THE OPTION OF INDIVIDUALS 340
NOTES TO CHAPTER X 345
PART Ⅲ THE AGE OF THE CONCERT 349
Ⅺ. AN EXPERIMENT IN MECHANISM 349
THE EUROPEAN AREOPAGUS : INTRODUCTION 349
LEGISLATION AT VIENNA, INTERNATIONAL RIVERS,THE SLAVE TRADE 353
THE CONFERENCE OF THE AMBASSADORS, LONDON AND FRANKFORT CONFERENCES 356
xiv THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 359
Am-LA-CHAPELLE 359
TROPPAU AND LAIBACH 365
VERONA 368
THE ABANDONMENT OF THE CONGRESS SYSTEM 370
NOTES TO CHAPTER Ⅺ 377
Ⅻ.THE AMERICAS 378
THE TWO HEMISPHERES 378
PAN-AMERICANISM 387
NOTES TO CHAPTER Ⅻ 390
ⅩⅢ.ARBITRATION 392
THE PRACTICE OF ARBITRATION 392
NOTES To CHAPTER ⅩⅢ 409
ⅩⅣ.DISARMAMENT 411
LIMITATION OF ARMAMENTS 411
HUMANITARIAN RESTRICTION OF ARMS 420
NOTES TO CHAPTER XIV 425
ⅩⅤ.THE CONCERT IN POLITICAL ACTION 427
THE GREAT POWERS, GREECE AND BELGIUM 427
THE GREAT POWERS AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE 437
THE GREAT POWERS AND THE CRIMEAN WAR 442
THE PROPOSED ITALIAN CONFERENCE OF 1859 451
THE POWERS AND THE LEBANON 454
THE PROPOSED POLISH CONGRESS OF 1863 454
THE SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN CONFERENCE OF 1864 456
THE PROPOSED CONFERENCE OF 1866 AND THE CON-FER ENCES OF LONDON IN 1867 AND 1871 459
THE CONFERENCE AT CONSTANTINOPLE IN 1876-1877 463
THE CONGRESS OF BERLIN 465
The Powers and the Execution of the CongressDecisions 469
THE CONSTANTINOPLE CONFERENCE ON EGYPT IN 1882 470
THE PROPOSED CONFERENCE IN 1908-I909 471
THE CONGO CONFERENCE 472
THE CONFERENCE OF MADRID IN 1880 474
THE CONFERENCE OF ALGECIRAS IN 1906 475
THE CONFERENCE OF AMBASSADORS, 1912-1913 476
The Proposed Conference of 1914 477
THE PARIS CONFERENCE AND THE PEACE TREATIES 478
THE GENOA CONFERENCE 482
THE CONFERENCE OF LAUSANNE 484
NOTES TO CHAPTER ⅩⅤ 486
ⅩⅥ. THE CONCERT IN ECONOMIC ACTION 488
COMMUNICATIONS 488
THE POSTAL CONVENTION 489
ADAPTATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW IN THE MATTER OF CABLES AND AIRWAYS 490
INTERNATIONAL RIVER COMMISSIONS 492
THE OPENING OF ARTERIAL RIVERS TO GENERAL NAVIGATION 493
INTER-OCEANIC CANALS 493
OTHER INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS 495
LABOUR CONVENTIONS BEFORE THE WAR OF 19I4-I9i8 496
THE INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION 501
NOTES TO CHAPTER ⅩⅥ 502
ⅩⅦ.SOME TYPES OF TREATIES IN THE NINE- 503
TEENTH CENTURY 503
COMMERCIAL AND MOST-FAVOURED-NATION CLAUSES 503
TREATIES WITH EASTERN NATIONS 508
EXTRADITION TREATIES 510
TREATIES OF SOCIAL PHILANTHROPY 512
HEALTH CONVENTIONS 513
INTERNATIONAL SCANDALS 516
Slave Trade 516
North Sea Fisheries and Liquor Traffic 518
White-Slave Trafflc and Obscene Literature 518
“REBUS SIC STANTIBUS” 518
NOTES TO CHAPTER XVII 525
ⅩⅧ.THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS 527
THE LEAGUE 527
The League and Non-Members 534
Arbitration and Judicial Procedure 535
Non-Poli 538
tical Services of the League 538
CONCLUSION 541
NOTES TO CHAPTER ⅩⅦ 544
INDEX 547