Law on the Diplomatic Stage: The 1725 Ripperda Treaty

Dhondt, Frederik

Law on the Diplomatic Stage: The 1725 Ripperda Treaty

In: V. DRAGANOVA, L. HEIMBECK, H. LANDERER, S. KROLL & U. MEYER (eds.), Inszenierung des Rechts - Law on Stage [6 Jahrbuch Junge Rechtsgeschichte - Yearbook of Young Legal Historians 2010]. München: Martin Meidenbauer, 2011, pp. 303-324 (ISBN 3899752422)

17 Pages Posted: 25 Feb 2015

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Frederik Dhondt

Research Group CORE (Contextual Research in Law); Legal History Institute/Gustave Rolin Jaequemyns Institute of International Law (GRILI)

Date Written: July 31, 2010

Abstract

In this paper, I treat the discursive power of the "Balance of Power"-principle in the "thirty years of peace" following the Peace of Utrecht (1713). Starting from the criticism formulated by Heinz Duchhardt (Univ. Mainz) on the relative absence of the concrete wordings in treaties, I take the Ripperda Treaty (May 1725) between Emperor Charles VI and king Philip V of Spain as an example of inverse normative power. Even though the agreement clearly violated the Utrecht system and was quickly condemned as such by the other European players, the drafters tried to present the situation as if they were actually adhering to it.

Keywords: History of International Law, European History, Early Modern History, International Relations

JEL Classification: K33, N43

Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation

Dhondt, Frederik, Law on the Diplomatic Stage: The 1725 Ripperda Treaty (July 31, 2010). In: V. DRAGANOVA, L. HEIMBECK, H. LANDERER, S. KROLL & U. MEYER (eds.), Inszenierung des Rechts - Law on Stage [6 Jahrbuch Junge Rechtsgeschichte - Yearbook of Young Legal Historians 2010]. München: Martin Meidenbauer, 2011, pp. 303-324 (ISBN 3899752422), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2569065