@inbook{f5b610bcfedf440699c4e3c8db7f479d,
title = "Peacemaking in old regime Europe",
abstract = "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.",
keywords = "history of international law, peace treaties, jus post bellum, Early Modern Europe",
author = "Randall Lesaffer",
year = "2025",
doi = "10.1017/9781108757355.021",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781108485616",
volume = "6",
series = "The Cambridge history of international law",
publisher = "Cambridge University Press",
pages = "588--619",
editor = "Randall Lesaffer",
booktitle = "The Cambridge history of international law",
address = "United Kingdom",
}