Notes on Contributors
Peter Beeuwkes
is a lawyer and legal advisor (ret.) to the Netherlands Ministry of Science and Education.
Stella Ghervas
is Professor of Russian History at Newcastle University and Associate of the Department of History at Harvard University. Her main interests are in the intellectual and international history of modern Europe, with special reference to the history of peace and peace-making, and in Russia’s intellectual and maritime history. She is the author of Réinventer la Tradition: Alexandre Stourdza et l’Europe de la Sainte-Alliance (2008) and Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union, forthcoming from Harvard University Press in 2020, and the co-editor of Lieux d’Europe: Mythes et limites (2008) and A Cultural History of Peace in the Age of Enlightenment 1648-1815 (2019). She is currently working on a new book titled Calming the Waters? A New History of the Black Sea, 1774-1920s and on an anthology of essential texts on peace from the Antiquity to the present day.
Martti Koskenniemi
is Professor of International Law at the University of Helsinki and Director of the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights. His main publications include From Apology to Utopia; The Structure of International Legal Argument (1989/2005), The Gentle Civilizer of Nations: The Rise and Fall of International Law 1870-1960 (2001) and The Politics of International Law (2011). He is currently working on a history of international legal thought from the late medieval period to the 19th century.
Randall Lesaffer
(*Brugge, 1968) studied law as well as history at Ghent and Leuven. From the latter university, he obtained his PhD in 1998. He is professor of legal history at the KU Leuven (since 1998) and at Tilburg University (since 1999). From 2008 to 2012, he served as dean of Tilburg Law School. His publications include European Legal History (Cambridge UP). He is general editor of The Cambridge History of International Law, of Oxford Historical Treaties, and of Studies in the History of International Law (Brill/Nijhoff).
Paul Meerts
is an analyst in international negotiation processes. He is a member of the Processes of International Negotiation (pin) Steering Committee at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (giga) in Hamburg and a member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of International Negotiation. He is the founder of the Program on International Negotiation Training (point). He obtained an MA and a PhD at Leiden University. The National University of Mongolia awarded him the title of Doctor Honoris Causa.
Isaac Nakhimovsky
is Associate Professor of History and Humanities at Yale University. His first book, The Closed Commercial State: Perpetual Peace and Commercial Society from Rousseau to Fichte (Princeton, 2011), showed how, in the context of the French Revolution, the German philosopher J.G. Fichte came to undertake a systematic treatment of economic independence as an ideal, or the political theory of what John Maynard Keynes later termed “national self-sufficiency.” He has also collaborated on an edition of Fichte’s Addresses to the German Nation (Hackett, 2013), and two volumes of essays on eighteenth-century political thought and its post-revolutionary legacies: Commerce and Peace in the Enlightenment (Cambridge, 2017), and Markets, Morals, Politics: Jealousy of Trade and the History of Political Thought (Harvard, 2018). His next book, A World Reformed: Liberalism, the Holy Alliance, and the Problems of Global Order, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press.
Sundhya Pahuja
is Professor of Law and Director, Institute for International Law and the Humanities at Melbourne University. Her research centres on the history, theory and political economy of international law and institutions. Her publications include Decolonising International Law: Development, Economic Growth and the Politics of Universality (cup, 2011; asil Prize 2011, Woodward Medal 2014) and the anthologies, Events: The Force of International Law (2011, with Johns and Joyce) and Reading Modern Law: Critical Methodologies and Sovereign Formations (2012, with Buchanan and Motha).
Alfred H.A. Soons
(PhD Utrecht University 1982) is Emeritus professor of public international law at Utrecht University. He studied law at Utrecht University, followed by graduate studies in international law at the University of Washington (Seattle, usa) and Cambridge University (UK). He was a civil servant with the Netherlands government from 1976 until his appointment to the chair of international law in Utrecht in 1987. He was, inter alia, President of the Netherlands Society of International Law and Director of Studies of the International Law Association (1997-2004) and is a member of the Institut de Droit International.
Koen Stapelbroek
is Associate Professor of History of Political Theory at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge (2004), published Love, Self-Deceit and Money: Commerce and Morality in the Early Neapolitan Enlightenment (Toronto, 2008) and a range of articles and edited volumes on eighteenth-century political thought. He is completing a monograph on European perceptions of the rise and fall of the Dutch trade republic.
Benno Teschke
is Professor in the Department of International Relations and Director of the Center for Advanced International Theory (cait) at the University of Sussex. He received his PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science (lse) and was an Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles (ucla). His research interests comprise IR Theory, International Historical Sociology, Marxism and the Philosophy of the Social Sciences. He is the author of The Myth of 1648: Class, Geopolitics and the Making of Modern International Relations, which was awarded the 2004 Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize.
Jaap de Wilde
is professor in International Relations & Security Studies at the Department of International Relations & International Organization, and the Centre for International Relations Research, University of Groningen, since 2007. His publications include: “Anachronistic Research in International Relations and Security Studies”, In: E.D. Jacob, Ed., Rethinking Security in the Twenty-First Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017: 29-40). Anne Beaulieu, Jaap de Wilde & Jacquelien Scherpen, Eds., Smart Grids from a Global Perspective (Springer, 2016). Barry Buzan, Ole Wæver & Jaap de Wilde, Security: A New Framework for Analysis (Rienner, 1998).