Thomas Poole (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Reason of State

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For those interested in the relationship between politics, power and constitutions, this book examines the idea of prerogative power and reason of state by looking at the theoretical debates surrounding the development of the British constitution and the British Empire, singling out the East India Company as a focal point.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781107461741
• ISBN-10: 110746174X
• Artikelnr.: 51387937

Autorenporträt

Thomas Poole is Associate Professor and Reader in the Law Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The safety of the people: from prerogative to reason of state
2. Prerogative in early modern state theory
3. Republican principles of state and empire
4. Jealousy of trade: reason of state and commercial empire
5. Reason of state in the first age of global imperialism
6. Reason of state and the legislating empire
7. War, law, and the modern state
8. Rights, risk, and reason of state.