Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of Oxford, 2018) issued under title: Constructing the right to war: Alberico Gentili and his receptions in international law.

Claire Vergerio is Assistant Professor of International Relations in the Institute of Political Science, Leiden University, the Netherlands.

1. Context, reception, and the study of great thinkers in International Relations; Part I. Gentili's De iure Belli in its Original Context: 2. Alberico Gentili's De iure Belli: Between Bodin and the reason of state tradition; 3. Grounding an absolutist approach to the laws of war; Part II. Gentili's De iure Belli and the Myth of 'Modern War': 4. Unearthing the 'true founder' of international law; 5. Constructing the history of the 'modern' laws of war; 6. Carl Schmitt and the entrenchment of the myth.