Recent books in the fields of diplomatic history and history of public international law

As if the devil was behind it, books have been popping up for the past years as almost never before, right in the middle of my research subject...

A brief overview of new publications since 2009 (only three years !!):

1. History (and theory) of public international law

• ASBACH, OLAF and SCHRÖDER, PETER (eds.), War, the State and International Law in Seventeenth-Century Europe (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010) 273.
• BESSON, SAMANTHA and TASIOULAS, JOHN (eds.), The philosophy of international law (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010) 611.
• CAPPS, P.M., Human Dignity and the Foundations of International Law (Studies in international law; XXIII; Oxford: Hart, 2009) XIII + 294.
• CLARK, IAN, Hegemony in international society (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2011) VII, 277.
• CORTEN, OLIVIER and JOUANNET, EMMANUELLE, Le discours du droit international : pour un positivisme critique (Doctrine(s); Paris: A. Pedone, 2009) 350. 
• CORTEN, OLIVIER, Méthodologie du droit international public (ULB Lire; Bruxelles: Éditions de l'Université Libre de Bruxelles, 2009) 291.
• CORTEN, OLIVIER, The Law Against War: The Prohibition on the Use of Force in Contemporary International Law (Oxford: Hart, 2010) 569.
• COUZIGOU, IRÈNE, L'évolution du statut international de l'Allemagne depuis 1945 (Bruxelles: Bruylant, 2011) 732.
• CRAWFORD, JAMES (ed.), Brownlie's Principles of Public International Law (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2012) 840.
• CRAWFORD, JAMES and KOSKENNIEMI, MARTTI (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to International Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012) 484.
• FREHLAND-WILDEBOER, KATJA, Treue Freunde ? : Das Bündnis in Europa 1714-1914 (München: Oldenbourg, 2010) 472.
• GOOD, CHRISTOPH, Emer de Vattel (1714-1767) - Naturrechtliche Ansätze einer Menschenrechtsidee und des humanitären Völkerrechts im Zeitalter der Aufklärung (Europäische Rechts- und Regionalgeschichte, Band 12; Baden: Nomos Verlag, 2011) 222.
• GROTIUS, HUGO, FEENSTRA, R., and VERVLIET, JEROEN, Hugo Grotius' Mare Liberum: 1609-2009 (Leiden: Brill, 2009) LXV + 178.
• HAGGENMACHER, PETER and CHETAIL, VINCENT (eds.), Vattel's international law in a XXIst century perspective/ Le droit international de Vattel vu du XXIe siècle (Graduate institute of international and development studies ; v. 9; Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 2011) XVIII + 442.
• JOUANNET, EMMANUELLE, Le droit international libéral-providence: une histoire du droit international (Bruxelles: Bruylant, 2011) 351. 
• JÜTERSONKE, OLIVER, Morgenthau, Law and Realism (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010) 198. 
• KLABBERS, JAN, PETERS, ANNE, and ULFSTEIN, GEIR (eds.), The Constitutionalization of International Law (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009) 384.
• LAPPENKÜPER, ULRICH and MARCOWITZ, REINER (eds.), Macht und recht: völkerrecht in den internationalen Beziehungen (Wissenschaftliche reihe; 13, Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2010) XXIII + 334.
• KLEINSCHMIDT, HARALD, Legitimität, Frieden, Völkerrecht : eine Begriffs- und Theoriegeschichte der menschlichen Sicherheit (Beiträge zur politischen Wissenschaft; 157; Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2010) 496.
• ONUMA, YASUAKI, A Transcivilizational Perspective on International Law (Pocketbooks of the Hague Academy of International Law; Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff, 2011) 480.
• ORAKHELASHVILI, ALEXANDER (ed.), Research Handbook on Theory and History of International Law (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011) 566.
• PETERS, ANNE, et al. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law (Oxford Handbooks in Law, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2012) 1272. 
• RICHTER, SUSAN, Fürstentestamente der Frühen Neuzeit: Politische Programme und Medien intergenerationeller Kommunikation (Schriftenreihe der Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften; 80; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009) 541.
• ROBERTS, IVOR (ed.), Satow's diplomatic practice (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009) LVI + 730.
• SIMMS, BRENDAN and TRIM, D.J.B. (eds.), Humanitarian intervention: a history (Humanitarian intervention case studies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011) XV + 408.
• STEIGER, HEINHARD, Von der Staatengesellschaft zur Weltrepublik ? (Studien zur Geschichte des Völkerrechts; 22; Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag, 2009) XIII + 786.
• SUR, SERGE, Les dynamiques du droit international (Doctrines; Paris: Pedone, 2012) 316
• TOYODA, TETSUDA, Theory and Politics of the Law of Nations: Political Bias in International Law Discourse of Seven German Court Councillors in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Studies in the History of International Law; 2; Leiden: Brill, 2011) 220.
• WHITMAN, JAMES Q., The Verdict of Battle:The Law of Victory and the Making of Modern War (Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard UP, 2012) 300.

2. Legal history

• BENTON, LAUREN, A Search for Sovereignty. Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400-1900 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010) 340. 
• KATZ, STANLEY NIDER (ed.), The Oxford international encyclopedia of legal history 6 vols. (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009).
• LOUGHLIN, MARTIN, Foundations of public law (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010) XII + 515.

3. Diplomatic history

• BÉLY, LUCIEN and POUMARÈDE, GÉRAUD (eds.), L'incident diplomatique (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle) (Histoire de la diplomatie, Paris: Pedone, 2010) 416.
• BÉRENGER, JEAN (ed.), La paix de Karlowitz - 26 janvier 1699. Les relations entre l'Europe centrale et l'Empire Ottoman (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2010) 400.
• BLACK, JEREMY, A History of Diplomacy (London: Reaktion books, 2010) 312.
• KAMPMANN, CHRISTOPH, et al. (eds.), L'art de la paix : Kongresswesen und Friedensstiftung im Zeitalter des Westfälischen Friedens (Schriftenreihe der Vereinigung zur Erforschung der Neueren Geschichte, 34, Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2011) 656. 
• LOCHER, ANNA, Crisis? What crisis? : NATO, de Gaulle, and the future of the alliance, 1963-1966 (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2010) 314.
• SCHMIDT-VOGES, INKEN, 'Pax perpetua : Neuere Forschungen zum Frieden in der Frühen Neuzeit', Bibliothek altes reich; 8
• SMID, STEFAN, Der Spanische Erbfolgekrieg: Geschichte eines vergessenen Weltkriegs (1701-1714) (Köln: Böhlau, 2011) 580.
• TALLON, ALAIN, L'Europe au XVIe siècle: états et relations internationales (Paris: PUF, 2010) LVIII + 231.
• VAÏSSE, MAURICE (ed.), De Gaulle et la Russie (Biblis; 16, Paris: CNRS, 2012) 474.
• VAÏSSE, MAURICE, La puissance ou l'influence ? La France dans le monde depuis 1958 (Paris: Fayard, 2009) 649.

4. General history

• ALTHOFF, GERD, et al. (eds.), Spektakel der Macht: Rituale im Alten Europa 800-1800 (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2009) 256.
• BÉLY, LUCIEN (ed.), Dictionnaire de l'Ancien Régime (Quadrige; Dicos Poche, Paris: PUF, 2010) 1384. 
• BÉLY, LUCIEN (ed.), Les circulations internationales en Europe (1680-1780) (Paris: PUPS, 2011) 208.
• CORP, EDWARD T., The Stuarts in Italy, 1719-1766 : a royal court in permanent exile (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2011) XI + 416.
• DÉSOS, CATHERINE, Les Français de Philippe V: un modèle nouveau pour gouverner l'Espagne, 1700-1724 (Paris: PUF, 2009) 540.
• DOYLE, WILLIAM (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Régime (Oxford Handbooks in History, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2012) 583. 
• DUPILET, ALEXANDRE, La Régence absolue: Philippe d'Orléans et la polysynodie (Époques; Seyssel: Champ Vallon, 2011) 436. 
• GONZÁLEZ CRUZ, DAVID, Propaganda e información en tiempos de guerra: España y América (1700–1714) (Madrid: Sílex Ediciones, 2009) 304.
• PICAUD-MONNERAT, SANDRINE, La petite guerre au XVIIIe siècle (Bibliothèque stratégique; Paris: Economica, 2010) 685.
• SIRINELLI, JEAN-FRANÇOIS, CAUCHY, PASCAL, and GAUVARD, CLAUDE (eds.), Les historiens français à l'oeuvre 1995-2010 (Paris: PUF, 2010) 328.
• THOMPSON, ANDREW C., George II: king and elector (Yale English Monarchs Series; New Haven (Conn.): Yale University Press, 2011) X + 315.
• VARGA, SUZANNE, Philippe V roi d'Espagne : petit-fils de Louis XIV (Paris: Pygmalion, 2011) 517.
• WHALEY, JAMES, Germany and the Holy Roman Empire: Volume II: The Peace of Westphalia to the Dissolution of the Reich, 1648-1806 (Oxford History of Early Modern Europe; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011) 747.
• ZWITZER, H.L., HOFFENAAR, J., and VAN DER SPEK, C.W., Het Staatsche Leger IX: De achttiende eeuw 1713-1795 (Amsterdam: De Bataafsche Leeuw, 2012) 946. 

5. Sociology

• BATTISTELLA, DARIO, Théories des relations internationales (Références; Paris: Presses de Sciences Po, 2009) 694.
• BOURDIEU, PIERRE, Sur l'État: Cours au Collège de France (1989-1992) (Philosophie générale; Paris: Seuil, 2012) 656.
• DEVIN, GUILLAUME, Sociologie des relations internationales (Repères. Sociologie; 335; Paris: La découverte, 2010 [2002]) 122.