Introduction 1
1 First Principles of Law,State and Government in Hobbes's Civil Philosophy 10
1.1 Pre-modern natural law theorizing and the modern natural law tradition 11
1.2 The natural state of men and the laws of nature 17
1.3 Covenanting,the commonwealth and the rights of sovereignty 29
1.4 The effects and consequences of the establishing of the sovereign power 32
1.5 The rule of law:civil law,crime and punishment 37
1.6 The office of sovereign 51
2 Natural Law,the Law of Nations and Realism in International Politics 55
2.1 The international state of nature 56
2.2 The elements of the law of nations 63
2.3 Natural law,domestic legal order and individual rights 72
2.4 The realist tradition in international politics 85
3 The Tradition of International Law 99
3.1 Grotius 100
3.2 Pufendorf and natural law jurisprudence 108
3.3 Pufendorf and the law of nations 117
3.4 Wolff and Vattel 125
3.5 The undermining of the natural law consensus on international law 135
Conclusion 146
Notes and References 157
Bibliography 179
Index 184