La paix par le droit international dans la vision de deux juristes du XIXe siecle le debat Lorimer-Bluntschli
In: Relations internationales: revue trimestrielle d'histoire, Heft 149, S. 13-26
ISSN: 0335-2013
James Lorimer and Johann Caspar Bluntschli were among the most eminent jurists of their time. In 1877, after a historical period punctuated by several wars, the first proposed a peace plan providing for the political federalization of Europe; the second replied the following year with the project for a league of nations very different in nature, in which the leading role would be entrusted to the six major powers acting in concert. Both, however, felt that international law could not admit the prospect of war, and therefore would never be in full existence without a radical reform of the European system -- an approach better labelled as "Law through Peace" than as "Peace through Law". Adapted from the source document.