Walter Rech
Biographic Data
| ID | 525690 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Walter Rech |
| GIVEN NAMES | Walter |
| FAMILY NAME | Rech |
| SIGNATURE | RECH W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4455-502X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Should Heads of State and Government Enjoy Protection from Direct Attack in Armed Conflict: Some Insights from Vattel
This article explores the issue of the elimination of state leaders, in particular in the context of armed conflict, with reference to the work of international lawyer Emer de Vattel (1714-1767). The article highlights the value of the Vattelian concepts of proportionality, necessity and state survival as tools for assessing targeted attacks on heads of state and government. It points out that the elimination of state leaders may produce unintend…
Revisiting Badiou's Theory of the Political Subject
This article argues that Alain Badiou's theory of the subject offers conceptual resources that help make sense of ordinary life-experiences of ‘evental moments’ and enable the critique of hypertrophic forms of political or corporate agency. The article identifies a set of ideas through which Badiou's philosophy contributes to much-needed emancipatory thinking today. As it investigates the notions of horlieu and the event, the article stresses tha…
Some remarks on the EU’s action on the erosion of the rule of law in Poland and Hungary
The political situation in Poland and Hungary has contributed to a growing sense that the common values of the European polity are being radically challenged and, in some contexts, utterly dismantled. The European Union (EU) and the Council of Europe have reacted to the crisis e.g. through the recommendations of the Venice Commission and the Rule of Law Framework, while scholarship has conducted an intense debate on the conduct of Fidesz and PiS …
The Death of God, Systemic Evolution, and the Event: On the Temporality of International Law
1. International Law and the Death of God In one of the most famous passages in the history of modern philosophy, aphorism 125 of The Gay Science, Friedrich Nietzsche narrated the story of the madman who ran to the marketplace to announce the death of God.1 The madman held that religion was crumbling and that the many churches still to be seen all around Europe no longer were the houses but “the tombs and sepulchers of God.”2 Still the bystanders…
International Law and Empire: Historical Explorations
By examining the relationship between international law and empire from early modernity to the present, this volume improves current understandings of the way international legal institutions, practices, and narratives have shaped imperial ideas about and structures of world governance.
Between regional community and global society: Europe in the shadow of Schmitt and Kojève
While celebrated for bringing peace and prosperity to the region, European integration has been recently challenged by various internal and external crises that call the progressivist narrative of ever closer—and larger—union into question. Torn between regional community and global society, particularism and cosmopolitanism, and politics and technocracy, the European Union appears beset by fundamental tensions. In search of a different theoretic…
Scepticism of empire in modern Western thought
In Sovereignty, Property and Empire, Andrew Fitzmaurice provides an excellent contribution to the burgeoning literature on empire and international law by exploring the history of occupation, here
History and Normativity: Vico’s ‘Natural Law of Nations’
Foundations of Modern International Thought
Enemies of Mankind: Vattel’s Theory of Collective Security
In Enemies of Mankind Walter Rech offers a contextual history of the collective security doctrine articulated by Swiss international lawyer Emer de Vattel (1714-67) in the authoritative treatise Droit des gens of 1758. With reference to Vattel's writings and to early modern international history and legal thought more generally, Rech explores the meanings and functions of the enemy of mankind concept and its ramifications for collective security.…
Enemies of Mankind: Vattel’s Theory of Collective Security
In Enemies of Mankind Walter Rech offers a contextual history of the collective security doctrine articulated by Swiss international lawyer Emer de Vattel (1714-67) in the authoritative treatise Droit des gens of 1758. With reference to Vattel's writings and to early modern international history and legal thought more generally, Rech explores the meanings and functions of the enemy of mankind concept and its ramifications for collective security.…
Between regional community and global society: Europe in the shadow of Schmitt and Kojève
While celebrated for bringing peace and prosperity to the region, European integration has been recently challenged by various internal and external crises that call the progressivist narrative of ever closer—and larger—union into question. Torn between regional community and global society, particularism and cosmopolitanism, and politics and technocracy, the European Union appears beset by fundamental tensions. In search of a different theoretic…
Foundations of Modern International Thought
Enemies of Mankind: Vattel’s Theory of Collective Security
In Enemies of Mankind Walter Rech offers a contextual history of the collective security doctrine articulated by Swiss international lawyer Emer de Vattel (1714-67) in the authoritative treatise Droit des gens of 1758. With reference to Vattel's writings and to early modern international history and legal thought more generally, Rech explores the meanings and functions of the enemy of mankind concept and its ramifications for collective security.…
History and Normativity: Vico’s ‘Natural Law of Nations’
Between regional community and global society: Europe in the shadow of Schmitt and Kojève
While celebrated for bringing peace and prosperity to the region, European integration has been recently challenged by various internal and external crises that call the progressivist narrative of ever closer—and larger—union into question. Torn between regional community and global society, particularism and cosmopolitanism, and politics and technocracy, the European Union appears beset by fundamental tensions. In search of a different theoretic…
Scepticism of empire in modern Western thought
In Sovereignty, Property and Empire, Andrew Fitzmaurice provides an excellent contribution to the burgeoning literature on empire and international law by exploring the history of occupation, here
International Law and Empire: Historical Explorations
By examining the relationship between international law and empire from early modernity to the present, this volume improves current understandings of the way international legal institutions, practices, and narratives have shaped imperial ideas about and structures of world governance.
Some remarks on the EU’s action on the erosion of the rule of law in Poland and Hungary
The political situation in Poland and Hungary has contributed to a growing sense that the common values of the European polity are being radically challenged and, in some contexts, utterly dismantled. The European Union (EU) and the Council of Europe have reacted to the crisis e.g. through the recommendations of the Venice Commission and the Rule of Law Framework, while scholarship has conducted an intense debate on the conduct of Fidesz and PiS …
The Death of God, Systemic Evolution, and the Event: On the Temporality of International Law
1. International Law and the Death of God In one of the most famous passages in the history of modern philosophy, aphorism 125 of The Gay Science, Friedrich Nietzsche narrated the story of the madman who ran to the marketplace to announce the death of God.1 The madman held that religion was crumbling and that the many churches still to be seen all around Europe no longer were the houses but “the tombs and sepulchers of God.”2 Still the bystanders…
Revisiting Badiou's Theory of the Political Subject
This article argues that Alain Badiou's theory of the subject offers conceptual resources that help make sense of ordinary life-experiences of ‘evental moments’ and enable the critique of hypertrophic forms of political or corporate agency. The article identifies a set of ideas through which Badiou's philosophy contributes to much-needed emancipatory thinking today. As it investigates the notions of horlieu and the event, the article stresses tha…
Should Heads of State and Government Enjoy Protection from Direct Attack in Armed Conflict: Some Insights from Vattel
This article explores the issue of the elimination of state leaders, in particular in the context of armed conflict, with reference to the work of international lawyer Emer de Vattel (1714-1767). The article highlights the value of the Vattelian concepts of proportionality, necessity and state survival as tools for assessing targeted attacks on heads of state and government. It points out that the elimination of state leaders may produce unintend…
Political science (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · History (4 works) · International Law and Human Rights (3 works) · Politics (3 works)