The Person of the State: The Anthropomorphic Subject of the Law of Nations

IF 1.1 Q2 LAW

JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW Pub Date : 2022-10-24 DOI:10.1163/15718050-bja10076

Adam Strobeyko

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Abstract

The analogy between the natural individual and the ‘person’ of the State has played an important role in the development of the law of nations. The early modern theorists of the law of nations have employed various anthropomorphic vocabularies in order to describe the State and to explain the functioning of international legal obligations. This article traces the role of anthropomorphic assumptions about the State in the writings of Hobbes, Pufendorf, Wolff and Vattel. It compares different conceptualizations of personhood of the State and traces the transition towards the view of the State as an autonomous subject of a distinct set of rights and duties under the law of nations. Finally, the article invites the audience in international law to re-examine our disciplinary conceptualizations of the person of the State as the subject of international legal obligations.

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国家的人:国际法的拟人化主体

自然人与国家“人”之间的类比在国际法的发展中发挥了重要作用。早期现代的国际法理论家使用了各种拟人化的词汇来描述国家和解释国际法律义务的运作。本文追溯了在霍布斯、普芬多夫、沃尔夫和瓦泰尔的著作中关于国家的拟人化假设的作用。它比较了关于国家人格的不同概念，并追溯了将国家视为在国际法下具有一套独特权利和义务的自主主体的转变过程。最后，这篇文章请国际法的读者重新审查我们关于国家的人作为国际法律义务主体的纪律概念。

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JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW LAW-

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期刊介绍： The object of the Journal of the History of International Law/Revue d"histoire du droit international is to contribute to the effort to make intelligible the international legal past, however varied and eccentric it may be, to stimulate interest in the whys, the whats and wheres of international legal development, without projecting present relationships upon the past, and to promote the application of a sense of proportion to the study of current international legal problems. The aim of the Journal is to open fields of inquiry, to enable new questions to be asked, to be awake to and always aware of the plurality of human civilizations and cultures, past and present.