Recht zur Intervention – Pflicht zur Intervention?

The responsibility to protect and intervention possessed a central political importance in the early modern period. This volume asks whether there was also a duty to intervene alongside the right to do so. This draws attention to the relationship between the responsibility to protect, security and reputation, which is the focus of the contributions the book contains. Chronologically, they range from the 15th to the 18th centuries and discuss monarchical duties to protect, alliance commitments, confessional legitimation and motives, as well as those based on patronage, contractual relationships and electoral processes. One of the book’s important findings is a deeper understanding of reputation, which is comprehensively examined here as a political guiding factor with reference to changing understandings of security for the first time.
With contributions by
Horst Carl, Tilman Haug, Oliver Hegedüs, Joel A. Hüsemann, Christoph Kampmann, Julian Katz, Jacek Kordel, Anja Krause, Johanna Müser, Harriet Rudolph, Erik Swart and Christian Wenzel.