Medieval foundations of international relations / edited by William Bain.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The medieval contribution to modern international relations / William Bain -- The medieval and the international : a strange case of mutual neglect / Nicholas Rengger -- Metaphysics and the problem of international order / C.J.C Pickstock -- Secularism in question : Hugo Grotius's "impious hypothesis" again / Francis Oakley -- Between false-universalism and radical-particularism : thoughts on Thomas Hobbes and international relations / Joshua Mitchell -- The medieval Roman and canon law origins of international law / Joseph Canning -- Then and now : the medieval conception of just war versus recent portrayals of the just war idea / James Turner Johnson -- Humanitarian intervention in a world of sovereign states : the Grotian dilemma / James Muldoon -- The medieval and early modern legacy of rights : the rights to punish and to property / Camilla Boisen and David Boucher -- International relations and the "modern" Middle Ages : rival theological theorisations of international order / Adrian Pabst.