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We have now examined some of the more significant features of the system of international relations that operated in Europe during this period. What evidence does our survey provide about the character of that system?
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See A. Lossky, “International Relations in Europe”, in The New Cambridge Modern History, vol. vi (Cambridge, 1970) p. 192.
E. de Vattel, The Law of Nations, 1758, English trs. (London, 1811) vol. iii, p. 251.
F. von Geirtz, On the Balance of Power (London, 1806) p. 69.
Abbé de Pradt, La Prusse et sa neutralité (London, 1800) pp. 86–7.
Voltaire, Siècle de Louis XIV, quoted in Denys Hay, Europe: The Emergence of an Idea (Edinburgh, 1968) p. 123.
John Bellers, Some Reasons for a European State (London, 1710).
J.-J. Rousseau, Project for Perpetual Peace, English trs. (Edinburgh, 1774) p. 119.
Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace (London, 1796).
See M. S. Anderson, Europe in the Eighteenth century, 1739–83 (London, 1961) p. 154. Russia, like Turkey, was not included among those states qualified to participate in European institutions in Sully’s Grand Design at the beginning of the seventeenth century; but it was so included by Penn in his comparable plan put forward at the end of that century.
G. F. von Martens, Summary of the Law of Nations (Philadelphia, 1795) pp. 17–28.
For detailed statistics on this point see Evan Luard, War in International Society (London, 1986) pp. 24–68;
Quincy Wright, A Study of War, 2nd edn (Chicago, 1965) pp. 220–3.
Pufendorf, Introduction to the History of the Principal Kingdoms and States of Europe, 1684, trs. J. Crull (London, 1697).
S. Favier, Politique de tous les cabinets de l’Europe (Paris, 1802).
See G. P. Gooch, Maria Theresa, and Other Studies (London, 1951) p. 85.
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Luard, E. (1992). Conclusions: The Nature of the System. In: The Balance of Power. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21927-8_13
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