Lesaffer R. (ed.) Peace Treaties and International Law in European History

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 504 p. — ISBN10: 0-511-21603-3Specialists from every European country analyze peace treaty practice from the late fifteenth century to the 1919 Peace of Versailles in this collection. Emphasizing the doctrinal debate about peace treaties and the influence of older, Roman and medieval, concepts on modern practices, the book recalls the reader to before the epochal Peace Treaties of Westphalia of 1648. Its broader perspective allows for a reassessment of the role of the sovereign state in the modern international legal order.Table of treatiesPeace treaties and international law from Lodi to Versailles (1454 – 1920)
Thinking peace: voices from the past
Thinking peace: towards a better future
Making peace: aspects of treaty practiceTractatus de confederatione, pace, & conventionibus Principum