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This book explores how ocean governance expert Elisabeth Mann Borgese (1918-2002) spent decades fighting to promote her radical vision of a just ocean order in the United Nations Law of the Sea Convention.

In Taming Ares Emiliano J. Buis studies the narrative foundations of the (il)legality of warfare in the classical Greek world in order to demonstrate its contribution to a better historical understanding of the international legal rules applicable to the use of force and the conduct of hostilities.

What is the nature of the ius gentium, and what is its relation to ius naturale? How theologians, philosophers, jurists sought the answers between 1500 and 1400 is the subject of this essay.