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Capture of Maastricht, 1632
25-08-2020
Capture of Maastricht, 1632. Strada: Histoire de la guerre des Païs Bas.
The collections of the Peace Palace Library on the Wikimedia Commons consist of 1985 high resolution photographs of prints from old books, and of other subjects.
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It’s our 107th Anniversary!
28-08-2020
The Peace Palace (and the Library!) officially opened on 28 August 1913.
Home of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), the International Court of Justice (ICJ), The Hague Academy of International Law and the Carnegie Foundation/Peace Palace Library
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Death Anniversary Hugo Grotius (1583-1645)
28-08-2020
Hugo Grotius was a major figure in the fields of philosophy, political theory and law during the sixteenth and seventeenth century.
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On 2 December 2009, the 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly declared 29 August the International Day against Nuclear Tests through the unanimous adoption of its resolution 64/35.
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On 21 December 2010, by its resolution 65/209 the UN General Assembly expressed its deep concern about the increase in enforced or involuntary disappearances in various regions of the world, including arrest, detention and abduction, when these are part of or amount to enforced disappearances, an
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New Database: COVID-19 in America
31-08-2020
COVID-19 in America: Response, Issues, and Law COVID-19
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SDG Action Day 2020
02-09-2020
The SDG Action Day will take place on 25 September - this year in a virtual setting. Entitled 'Decade of Transformation', there will be a discussion on how we can stimulate sustainable transitions based on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Freely accessible: A full and critical edition of the text of Hugo Grotius' De Iure Praedae Commentarius (IPC) as preserved in the single extant manuscript (Leiden UL, BPL 917).
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Grotius, H., De Iure Belli ac Pacis, 1625
08-09-2020
De Iure Belli ac Pacis libri tres (English: On the Law of War and Peace: Three books) is a work in Latin, written by Hugo Grotius and published in 1625 in Paris, on the legal status of war. It is now regarded as a foundational work in international law.
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Treaty of Versailles Centennial
28-06-2019
Today, 28 june 2019, is the Centennial of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. Signed on 28 June 1919 in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles Palace, the Treaty was the most important of the peace treaties that brought an end to World War I.
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Grotius, H., Mare Liberum, 1609
03-09-2020
Mare Liberum sive De iure quod Batavis competit ad Indicana commercia dissertatio (English: The Freedom of the Seas, Or, The Right Which Belongs to the Dutch to Take Part in the East Indian Trade) is a small pocket-sized booklet of 68 pages, written by Hugo Grotius, and published in 1609
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Nellen, H.J.M., Hugo Grotius: A Lifelong Struggle for Peace in Church and State, 1583-1645, 2014
03-09-2020
Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) is the most famous humanist scholar of the Dutch Golden Age. He wrote influential works on the laws of war and peace, Dutch history and the unification of the churches.
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Grotiana appears under the auspices of the Grotiana Foundation. The journal’s leading objective is the furtherance of the Grotian tradition. It welcomes any relevant contribution to a better understanding of Grotius’ life and works.
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Grotius’s Memory Honoured
22-02-2013
These well-known Grotius bibliographers identified three states in the first edition. They concluded that the first edition consists of three groups of copies, to be distinguished according to changes that were made during the print run.
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This textbook, the first comprehensive comparative study ever undertaken, surveys and compares the world’s ten largest diplomatic services: those of Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Russia, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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This volume brings together different approaches to diplomacy both as an institution and a practice. The authors examine diplomacy from their own backgrounds and through sociological traditions, which shape the study of international relations (IR) in Francophone countries.
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This volume explores the past, present and future of pessimism in International Relations. It seeks to differentiate pessimism from cynicism and fatalism and assess its possibilities as a respectable perspective on national and international politics.
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Treaty of Versailles Centennial: Mandates
27-06-2019
The mandate system was created in the aftermath of World War I to resolve the question of jurisdiction over the colonial territories detached from Germany and the Ottoman Empire.
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Unified Court Records Database
17-09-2020
On September 1, 2020, the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) launched a new Unified Court Records database (UCR), which for the first time brings together all public judicial records of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), the International Cri
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Newsletter September 2020: Editorial Note
28-09-2020
Dear Readers,