The 1713 Peace of Utrecht and its Enduring Effects

Alfred H.A. Soons is professor emeritus of public international law at Utrecht University

Preface

Notes on Contributors



Behaviour of Negotiators

 Paul Meerts and Peter Beeuwkes



Part 1

The Peace of Utrecht: the European Balance of Power



1 Balance of Power: Adversarial Pair of Scales or Associational Arch?

 Jaap de Wilde

2 Envisioning Europe after Utrecht: Voltaire and the Historiography of the Balance of Power

 Isaac Nakhimovsky

3 The Peace of Utrecht, the Balance of Power and the Law of Nations

 Randall Lesaffer



Part 2

The Peace of Utrecht: Relationship to Colonial Regimes and Trade Monopolies



4 “The Long Peace”: Commercial Treaties and the Principles of Global Trade at the Peace of Utrecht

 Koen Stapelbroek

5 The Social Origins of 18th Century British Grand Strategy: a Historical Sociology of the Peace of Utrecht

 Benno Teschke

6 Public Debt, the Peace of Utrecht and the Rivalry between Company and State

 Sundhya Pahuja



Part 3

The Peace of Utrecht: Ideas and Ideals; the Development of the International Legal Order



7 Peace of Utrecht (1713) and the “Crisis of European Conscience”

 Martti Koskenniemi

8 In the Shadow of Utrecht: Perpetual Peace and International Order, 1713–1815

 Stella Ghervas



Subject Index

Name Index