List of contributors
Antonella Alimento is a Professor in Modern History at the University of Pisa.
Previously she obtained scholarships from the École Normale and the EHESS in Paris, the Fondazione Einaudi in Turin, the European University Institute, Fiesole and the Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities. She is a specialist in eighteenth-century political economy, in France, Britain, Italy and Sweden. Among her recent publications are Réformes fiscales et crises politiques dans la France de Louis XV. De la taille tarifée au cadastre general (New York, 2008) and Finanze ed amministrazione. Un’inchiesta francese sui catati nell’Italia del Settecento (1763–
1764) (Florence, 2 vols, 2008). She edited Modelli d’oltre confine. Prospettive economiche e sociali negli antichi Stati italiani (Rome, 2009).
Tara Helfman is an Assistant Professor of Law at Syracuse University New York. After receiving an MPhil degree from Cambridge in Political Thought and Intellectual History she graduated from Yale Law School in 2006 as the Yale Journal of International Law Young Scholar of the Year, 2005 and winner of the Joseph Parker Prize, 2005. She spent three years working as an associate at Debevoise &
Plimpton LLP, mainly in the fields of public and private international law. She was an Olin/Searle Fellow at NYU Law School. Her research interests include fiduciary law and Anglo-American legal history, fields in which she has published several articles. Her current research includes the laws of war and the reception of law of nations theory in the United States during the late colonial and early Republic periods. She has published ‘Land Ownership and the Origins of Fiduciary Duty’
Real Property Probate and Trust Journal (2006), ‘The Court of Vice-Admiralty at Sierra Leone and the Abolition of the West African Slave Trade’, Yale Law Journal (2006) and ‘Neutrality, the Law of Nations and the Natural Law Tradition’, Yale Journal of International Law (2005).
Leos Müller is a Professor at the Centre for maritime history, Stockholm University.
His major interests concern Swedish foreign trade and shipping 1600–1800, early modern entrepreneurial behaviour, merchant social networks, Swedish East India Company and trade in tea. In a recent project, he studied the Swedish consular service and shipping in southern Europe and Atlantic trade. His publications include Consuls, Corsairs, and Commerce: The Swedish Consular Service and Long- distance Shipping, 1720–1815 (Uppsala, 2004), The Dynamics of Economic Culture in the North Sea and Baltic Region in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period (Hilversum, 2007), Statehood Before and Beyond Ethnicity. Minor States in Northern and Eastern Europe, 1600–2000 (Brussels, 2005).
Isaac Nakhimovsky is a research fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He studied at Cambridge for his MPhil degree and obtained a doctoral degree from Harvard University. His interests focus on the history of eighteenth-century political
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thought. He has worked extensively on St. Pierre’s peace project and on Voltaire and Frederick the Great’s Antimachiavel (1740), and published ‘The Enlightened Epicureanism of Jacques Abbadie: L’Art de se connoître soi-même and the Morality of Self-Interest’, History of European Ideas (2003), ‘Vattel’s Theory of the International Order: Commerce and the Balance of Power in the Law of Nations’, History of European Ideas (2007) and ‘Carl Schmitt’s Vattel and the Law of Nations between Enlightenment and Revolution’ Grotiana (2010). A revised version of his doctoral dissertation on Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s Closed Commercial State (1800) is forthcoming in 2011 with Princeton University Press as The Closed Commercial State: Perpetual Peace and Commercial Society from Rousseau to Fichte. He is working with Béla Kapossy on a new edition and translation of Fichte’s Addresses to the German Nation for the Hackett Publishing Company.
Stephen C. Neff is a Reader in Public International Law at the University of Edinburgh. His primary research interest is the history of public international law.
He is the author of a book on the historical development of international economic law. His current focus is the history of the law of neutrality. Another major interest is international human rights law, from both the academic and the practical standpoints. His chief publications include War and the Law of Nations: A General History (Cambridge, 2005), The Rights and Duties of Neutrals: A General History (Manchester, 2000), Reading Human Rights: An Annotated Guide to a Human Rights Library (London, 1997), Friends But No Allies: Economic Liberalism and the Law of Nations (New York, 1990).
Ere Nokkala obtained his PhD from the European University Institute in Florence at the Department of History and Civilization and is a Researcher within the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Political Thought and Conceptual Change (2006–2011).
His thesis discussed the eighteenth-century German cameralist J.H.G von Justi’s (1717–1771) views on the law of nations and international relations in general. He published ‘Passion as the foundation of natural law in the German enlightenment:
Johann Jacob Schmauss and J.H.G. von Justi,’ European Review of History (2010),
‘The Machine of State in Germany – The Case of Johann Heinrich Gottlob von Justi (1717–1771)’, Contributions to the History of Concepts (2009), ‘Triebfeder und Maschine in der politischen Theorie Johann Heinrich Gottlob von Justis (1717–1771)’, Wissenschaftsgeschichte des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts als Begriffsgeschichte (Bielefeld, 2009) and ‘Debatten mellan J.H.G. von Justi och H.L. von Heß om frihetstidens författning’, Historisk Tidskrift för Finland (2009).
Eric Schnakenbourg is a Maître de conférences d’Histoire moderne at the University of Nantes and member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He received his PhD in 2004. His research interests lie in the fields of history of international relations, specifically the Nordic countries in early modern history, the culture of war and peace in the eighteenth century and the perceptions and representations of the Scandinavian world in France between the 16th and the 18th centuries. He authored
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La France, le Nord et l’Europe au début du XVIIIe siècle (Paris, Honoré Champion, 2008) and (co-)edited France face aux crises et aux conflits des périphéries européennes et atlantiques du XVIIe au XXe siècle (Rennes, 2010), ‘La France et la Scandinavie aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles’, a special issue of Histoire économie et Société (2010) and La Scandinavie à l’époque moderne (Paris, Belin 2010).
Mark Somos is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Sussex. He obtained academic degrees from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in Political Science from Harvard University and was a Huygens Fellow at the Erasmus Centre for Early Modern Studies, Rotterdam. He published articles on the intellectual and religious foundations of modern politics and edited a forthcoming volume of History of European Ideas entitled Pact with the Devil: the Ethics, Politics and Economics of Anti-Machiavellian Machiavellism. His first monograph The History and Implications of Secularisation: The Leiden Circle, 1575–1618 is forthcoming (Leiden, 2011).
Koen Stapelbroek is an Academy of Finland researcher at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and Senior Lecturer in Public Administration at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge and published Love, Self-Deceit and Money: Commerce and Morality in the Early Nea- politan Enlightenment (Toronto, 2008). He published articles and edited volumes on Italian and Dutch eighteenth-century political thought, including two special issues of History of European Ideas. Currently, he is finishing a monograph on Dutch eighteenth-century political economic reform debates and starting up comparative research on such debates in the old Italian states.
