5. The Doctrine of Universal Reasonable Standards of Government

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Foreword VII
4. Contents IX
5. Introduction 1
6. Part One: The Concept of Natural Law and the Growth of the Science of International Law
7. 1. The Unity of Western Christendom in the Late Middle Ages and Its Disappearance 15
8. 2. Grotius’ Theory of The Legal Community of Mankind Without a Central Organ 30
9. 3. Pufendorf’s Concept of Free and Equal States Coexisting in a State of Nature and Wolff’s Doctrine of a Fictitious World State 49
10. 4. The Positivist Theory of International Law As Law Created by Sovereign Civilized States 79
11. Part Two: The Concept of the Community of Mankind, the Theory of the Natural Interests of Men, and the Belief in Progress
12. 5. The Doctrine of Universal Reasonable Standards of Government 99
13. 6. The Doctrine of the Natural Interests of Men 109
14. 7. The Idea of Progress and The Belief in the Power of Public Opinion 142
15. 8. The Nineteenth-Century Concept of the Undesirability of a World State 155
16. 9. The Combination of the Positivist Theory of International Law With the Progressive Concept of a Democratic Union of Free Nations 165
17. Part Three: The League of Nations Concept
18. 10. The First World War and the Rise of the League of Nations 189
19. 11. The Idea of Collective Security 202
20. 12. The League As Universal Quasi Government 224
21. 13. The League As a Center of Nonpolitical Activities 243
22. 14. The Modern Theory of Universal Law and the League of Nations; Legal Monism and the Primacy of the Law of Nations 257
23. Some Conclusions: United Nations and World State 278
24. Notes 305