Frederik Dhondt
Biographic Data
| ID | 299901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frederik Dhondt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frederik |
| FAMILY NAME | Dhondt |
| SIGNATURE | DHONDT F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9999-5658 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Cambridge History of International Law
Volume II of The Cambridge History of International Law breaks the mould of Eurocentric histories in the field by exploring international law in Asia from antiquity to decolonisation. Its twenty-six chapters span a vast geography, covering both the landmass and the oceans; offering accounts of statecraft and diplomacy, war and trade; marriage and gift-giving; treaty-making and dispute settlement; ideas of the human and 'the other'; and entangleme…
Portalis e o direito das gentes
O artigo analisa as concepções presentes nos escritos do jurista francês Joseph-Marie Portalis acerca do direito das gentes e do direito da guerra no período em que se encontrava na Académie des sciences morales et politiques do Institut de France, em particular o relatório apresentado - enquanto avaliador - no âmbito do certame voltado a selecionar uma dissertação sobre o progresso do direito das gentes desde a Paz da Vestefália, notoriamente so…
Commentary on Urban Secularism by Julia Martínez-Ariño
This article offers critical and complementary commentary on the new book Urban Secularism: Negotiating Religious Diversity in Europe by Julia Martínez-Ariño
Great Britain, International Law, and the Evolution of Maritime Strategic Thought, 1856–1914, written by Gabriela Frei
International audience
Justice and equality for all? Proportional representation in Belgium and France (1883-1921)
Whereas 19th century Belgium is traditionally framed as heavily dependent on France, this image ought to be nuanced for its political system. During what Pierre Rosanvallon named the transnational ‘proportional moment’ (1899-1914), the introduction of Proportional Representation in parliamentary elections generated a French interest in Belgium as the ‘electoral laboratory of Europe’. Arguments raised in the French Chambre des Députés were similar…
Isaac Newton Explicating His Natural Philosophical Method. A Study of the Development of the Methodological Statements in the Queries to the Opticks
Dans cet essai, nous étudions le développement de cinq passages méthodologiques importants dans les Queries de l’Opticks d’Isaac Newton (1642-1727) et nous explorons plusieurs raisons pour lesquelles il les a continuellement révisés et reformulés. Les Queries, publiés à la fois en anglais et en latin, ont une histoire éditoriale complexe et fascinante. Ici, nous analysons les manuscrits survivants en relation avec les versions publiées de l’Optic…
L’essor récent de l’histoire du droit international
Ce dossier spécial est consacré à l’histoire du droit international. Il regroupe sept contributions portant sur divers aspects de cette sous-discipline de l’histoire du droit qui connaît un essor historiographique majeur dans le monde, mais plus relatif en France1. En effet, aucune section ne portait sur l’histoire du droit international dans l’ouvrage collectif récent qui présentait les tendances actuelles et les nouveaux champs de l’histoire du…
Renonciations et possession tranquille: L’abbé de Saint-Pierre, la paix d’Utrecht et la diplomatie de la Régence
L’abbé de Saint-Pierre (1658-1743) est un des penseurs les plus étudiés du début du dix-huitième siècle. Son projet « utopique » de paix perpétuelle fut publié pendant le Congrès de paix d’Utrecht (1712-1713), où des plénipotentiaires de diverses puissances européennes mirent fin à la guerre de Succession d’Espagne (1701-1714). Comme le souligne Merle Perkins, les conceptions de Saint-Pierre, comme celles de Hobbes, partaient de la crainte comme …
Société d’histoire du droit et des institutions des pays flamands, picards et wallons
Training, Ideas and Practices. The Law of Nations in the Long Eighteenth Century: An Introduction to the Focus Section
This focus section is the result of the conference Training, Ideas and Practices. The Law of Nations in the Long Eighteenth Century, which took place in Paris on 18-19 May 2017.1 The purpose of this conference was to explore the roots of international law and the various concepts related to the 'law of nations' by looking at the legal language of diplomats and foreign offices in Europe during the long eighteenth century (ca. 1680-1830). The varie…
A World of Paper, Louis XIV, Colbert de Torcy, and the Rise of the Information State
Review of J.C. Rule & B.S. Trotter, A World of Paper. Louis XIV, Colbert de Torcy and the Rise of the Information State (Kingston/Montréal: McGill/Queen's UP, 2014
Neutralité permanente, interprétations mutantes: La neutralité belge à travers trois traités de juristes
International audience
David Lemmings – Law and Government in England during the Long Eighteenth Century. From Consent to Command
.
Recent research in the history of international law
This review article treats the booming scholarship on the history of international law over the past decade. Works with a broader view (1), including the recent big-book syntheses and collective works, are contrasted with monographs (2), from studies of treaties and doctrine, over diplomatic practice to scholarship by historians and, finally, interdisciplinary scholarship. This texts provides a personal panorama of the wide array of scholarly per…
The Law of Nations and Declarations of War after the Peace of Utrecht
The history of the law of nations is generally seen as a synonym for the history of the laws of war. Yet, a strictly bilateral perspective can distort our interpretation of early modern diplomacy. The Peace of Utrecht (11 April 1713) inaugurated an era of relative stability in the European state system, based on balance-of-power politics and anti-hegemonic legal argumentation. Incidental conflicts ought to be interpreted against this background. …
La politique par les armes: Conflits internationaux et politisation (XV e –XIX e siècle), ed. Laurent Bourquin, Philippe Hamon, Alain Hugon and Yann Lagadec
This book is the second in the framework of an interdisciplinary project (‘CONFLIPOL’) which aims at demonstrating how the ‘politicisation’ of internal or international conflicts leads to changes in the political field of interaction. The approach is broad and vast. The initial volume, published in 2010 and edited by Laurent Bourquin and Philippe Hamon, demonstrated how internal conflicts created ‘the political’, aloof from other societal spheres…
Balance of Power and Norm Hierarchy: Franco-British Diplomacy after the Peace of Utrecht
Balance of Power and Norm Hierarchy. Franco-British Diplomacy after the Peace of Utrecht offers a detailed study of French and British diplomacy in the age of ‘Walpole and Fleury’. After Louis XIV’s decease, European international relations were dominated by the collaboration between James Stanhope and Guillaume Dubois. Their alliance focused on the amendment and enlargement of the peace treaties of Utrecht, Rastatt and Baden. In-depth analysis o…
Balance of power and norm hierarchy: Franco-British diplomacy after the Peace of Utrecht
The System of Stanhope and Dubois (1717–1723)
War, Trade and Neutrality: Europe and the Mediterranean in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, written by Antonella Alimento
International audience
La représentation du droit dans la communauté des diplomates européens des « Trente Heureuses » (1713–1740)
Diplomatic representation in the community of the European diplomacy of the ‘ Trente heureuses ’ ( 1713 – 1740 ). – The study of Ancien Régime public international law compels researchers to broaden the traditional scope of legal history (treaties and doctrine). A broader understanding of normativity in international relations, inspired by sociology, cultural or international relations history leads to an analysis of diplomatic behaviour. Practic…
So Great a Revolution: Charles Townshend and the Partition of the Austrian Netherlands, September 1725
This article examines an exchange of dispatches between two prominent 18th century British foreign policy makers, Charles Townshend (1674-1738) and Horace Walpole (1678-1757), wherein the former proposed a partition of the Southern Netherlands. In the immediate aftermath of the 1725 Ripperda treaty, whereby Austrian Habsburgs and Spanish Bourbons surprisingly came together in a potential new universal monarchy, Townshend saw opportunities to dimi…
From Contract to Treaty. The Legal Transformation of the Spanish Succession 1659–1713
The problem of the Spanish Succession kept the European diplomatic system in suspense from 1659 until 1713. Statesmen and diplomats tackled the question. Their practical vision of the law was a necessary complement to legal doctrine. Louis XIV and Emperor Leopold I used incompatible and absolute claims, which originated in private law and Spanish succession law. At the Peace of Utrecht, these arguments completely dissolved. The War of the Spanish…
The Law of Nations and Declarations of War after the Peace of Utrecht
The history of the law of nations is generally seen as a synonym for the history of the laws of war. Yet, a strictly bilateral perspective can distort our interpretation of early modern diplomacy. The Peace of Utrecht (11 April 1713) inaugurated an era of relative stability in the European state system, based on balance-of-power politics and anti-hegemonic legal argumentation. Incidental conflicts ought to be interpreted against this background. …
From Contract to Treaty. The Legal Transformation of the Spanish Succession 1659–1713
The problem of the Spanish Succession kept the European diplomatic system in suspense from 1659 until 1713. Statesmen and diplomats tackled the question. Their practical vision of the law was a necessary complement to legal doctrine. Louis XIV and Emperor Leopold I used incompatible and absolute claims, which originated in private law and Spanish succession law. At the Peace of Utrecht, these arguments completely dissolved. The War of the Spanish…
So Great a Revolution: Charles Townshend and the Partition of the Austrian Netherlands, September 1725
This article examines an exchange of dispatches between two prominent 18th century British foreign policy makers, Charles Townshend (1674-1738) and Horace Walpole (1678-1757), wherein the former proposed a partition of the Southern Netherlands. In the immediate aftermath of the 1725 Ripperda treaty, whereby Austrian Habsburgs and Spanish Bourbons surprisingly came together in a potential new universal monarchy, Townshend saw opportunities to dimi…
La représentation du droit dans la communauté des diplomates européens des « Trente Heureuses » (1713–1740)
Diplomatic representation in the community of the European diplomacy of the ‘ Trente heureuses ’ ( 1713 – 1740 ). – The study of Ancien Régime public international law compels researchers to broaden the traditional scope of legal history (treaties and doctrine). A broader understanding of normativity in international relations, inspired by sociology, cultural or international relations history leads to an analysis of diplomatic behaviour. Practic…
Balance of Power and Norm Hierarchy: Franco-British Diplomacy after the Peace of Utrecht
Balance of Power and Norm Hierarchy. Franco-British Diplomacy after the Peace of Utrecht offers a detailed study of French and British diplomacy in the age of ‘Walpole and Fleury’. After Louis XIV’s decease, European international relations were dominated by the collaboration between James Stanhope and Guillaume Dubois. Their alliance focused on the amendment and enlargement of the peace treaties of Utrecht, Rastatt and Baden. In-depth analysis o…
Balance of power and norm hierarchy: Franco-British diplomacy after the Peace of Utrecht
The System of Stanhope and Dubois (1717–1723)
War, Trade and Neutrality: Europe and the Mediterranean in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, written by Antonella Alimento
International audience
Recent research in the history of international law
This review article treats the booming scholarship on the history of international law over the past decade. Works with a broader view (1), including the recent big-book syntheses and collective works, are contrasted with monographs (2), from studies of treaties and doctrine, over diplomatic practice to scholarship by historians and, finally, interdisciplinary scholarship. This texts provides a personal panorama of the wide array of scholarly per…
The Law of Nations and Declarations of War after the Peace of Utrecht
The history of the law of nations is generally seen as a synonym for the history of the laws of war. Yet, a strictly bilateral perspective can distort our interpretation of early modern diplomacy. The Peace of Utrecht (11 April 1713) inaugurated an era of relative stability in the European state system, based on balance-of-power politics and anti-hegemonic legal argumentation. Incidental conflicts ought to be interpreted against this background. …
La politique par les armes: Conflits internationaux et politisation (XV e –XIX e siècle), ed. Laurent Bourquin, Philippe Hamon, Alain Hugon and Yann Lagadec
This book is the second in the framework of an interdisciplinary project (‘CONFLIPOL’) which aims at demonstrating how the ‘politicisation’ of internal or international conflicts leads to changes in the political field of interaction. The approach is broad and vast. The initial volume, published in 2010 and edited by Laurent Bourquin and Philippe Hamon, demonstrated how internal conflicts created ‘the political’, aloof from other societal spheres…
David Lemmings – Law and Government in England during the Long Eighteenth Century. From Consent to Command
.
Neutralité permanente, interprétations mutantes: La neutralité belge à travers trois traités de juristes
International audience
A World of Paper, Louis XIV, Colbert de Torcy, and the Rise of the Information State
Review of J.C. Rule & B.S. Trotter, A World of Paper. Louis XIV, Colbert de Torcy and the Rise of the Information State (Kingston/Montréal: McGill/Queen's UP, 2014
L’essor récent de l’histoire du droit international
Ce dossier spécial est consacré à l’histoire du droit international. Il regroupe sept contributions portant sur divers aspects de cette sous-discipline de l’histoire du droit qui connaît un essor historiographique majeur dans le monde, mais plus relatif en France1. En effet, aucune section ne portait sur l’histoire du droit international dans l’ouvrage collectif récent qui présentait les tendances actuelles et les nouveaux champs de l’histoire du…
Renonciations et possession tranquille: L’abbé de Saint-Pierre, la paix d’Utrecht et la diplomatie de la Régence
L’abbé de Saint-Pierre (1658-1743) est un des penseurs les plus étudiés du début du dix-huitième siècle. Son projet « utopique » de paix perpétuelle fut publié pendant le Congrès de paix d’Utrecht (1712-1713), où des plénipotentiaires de diverses puissances européennes mirent fin à la guerre de Succession d’Espagne (1701-1714). Comme le souligne Merle Perkins, les conceptions de Saint-Pierre, comme celles de Hobbes, partaient de la crainte comme …
Société d’histoire du droit et des institutions des pays flamands, picards et wallons
Training, Ideas and Practices. The Law of Nations in the Long Eighteenth Century: An Introduction to the Focus Section
This focus section is the result of the conference Training, Ideas and Practices. The Law of Nations in the Long Eighteenth Century, which took place in Paris on 18-19 May 2017.1 The purpose of this conference was to explore the roots of international law and the various concepts related to the 'law of nations' by looking at the legal language of diplomats and foreign offices in Europe during the long eighteenth century (ca. 1680-1830). The varie…
Justice and equality for all? Proportional representation in Belgium and France (1883-1921)
Whereas 19th century Belgium is traditionally framed as heavily dependent on France, this image ought to be nuanced for its political system. During what Pierre Rosanvallon named the transnational ‘proportional moment’ (1899-1914), the introduction of Proportional Representation in parliamentary elections generated a French interest in Belgium as the ‘electoral laboratory of Europe’. Arguments raised in the French Chambre des Députés were similar…
Isaac Newton Explicating His Natural Philosophical Method. A Study of the Development of the Methodological Statements in the Queries to the Opticks
Dans cet essai, nous étudions le développement de cinq passages méthodologiques importants dans les Queries de l’Opticks d’Isaac Newton (1642-1727) et nous explorons plusieurs raisons pour lesquelles il les a continuellement révisés et reformulés. Les Queries, publiés à la fois en anglais et en latin, ont une histoire éditoriale complexe et fascinante. Ici, nous analysons les manuscrits survivants en relation avec les versions publiées de l’Optic…
Great Britain, International Law, and the Evolution of Maritime Strategic Thought, 1856–1914, written by Gabriela Frei
International audience
Commentary on Urban Secularism by Julia Martínez-Ariño
This article offers critical and complementary commentary on the new book Urban Secularism: Negotiating Religious Diversity in Europe by Julia Martínez-Ariño
Portalis e o direito das gentes
O artigo analisa as concepções presentes nos escritos do jurista francês Joseph-Marie Portalis acerca do direito das gentes e do direito da guerra no período em que se encontrava na Académie des sciences morales et politiques do Institut de France, em particular o relatório apresentado - enquanto avaliador - no âmbito do certame voltado a selecionar uma dissertação sobre o progresso do direito das gentes desde a Paz da Vestefália, notoriamente so…
The Cambridge History of International Law
Volume II of The Cambridge History of International Law breaks the mould of Eurocentric histories in the field by exploring international law in Asia from antiquity to decolonisation. Its twenty-six chapters span a vast geography, covering both the landmass and the oceans; offering accounts of statecraft and diplomacy, war and trade; marriage and gift-giving; treaty-making and dispute settlement; ideas of the human and 'the other'; and entangleme…
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