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  • 18 - Peacemaking in Old Regime Europe

  • from Part II - International Law in Old Regime Europe (1660–1775)
  • General editor Randall Lesaffer, KU Leuven and Tilburg University
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of International Law
    Published online:
    22 April 2025
    Print publication:
    08 May 2025, pp 588-619

  • Summary

    The Old Regime period saw the highpoint of the role of peace treaties in the political and legal ordering of Christian Europe. Whereas the peace instrument by and large continued to adhere to the legal logic of the settlement of disputes about right between pairs of belligerents, important peace treaties entered into the constitutional fabric of Europe through the workings of multilateral alliances and general peace conferences and through the networking of treaties in different fashions. The encompassing nature of warfare also led to a phase of the growth of the length and legal complexity of peace treaties, particularly during the seventeenth century. The eighteenth century in turn saw a trend towards the standardisation of peace treaty clauses, marking the emergence of an elaborate body of peacemaking lore, or even law.