The savage republic : De Indis of Hugo Grotius, republicanism, and Dutch hegemony within the early modern world system (c. 1600 -1619)

Intended for the professional academic and graduate student, this book is the first to utilize the methodology of “New Stream” legal scholarship in an extended critical “exegesis” of Hugo Grotius’ De Indis (c.1604-6). De Indis is predicated upon a two-fold discursive strategy: (i) investing “private” Trading Companies with “public” international legal personality, and (ii) collapsing the distinction between “private” and “public” warfare. Governing the operation of textual interpretation is De Indis ’ status as a republican treatise juridically legitimating an early modern Trans-National corporation (the VOC) that served as an agent of a “primitive” system of global governance, the early Capitalist World-Economy. The application of New Stream scholarship reveals that the republican signature of De Indis consists of a discursive “micro-oscillation” between the “thick” ontology of Late Scholasticism (“Utopia”) and the “thin” ontology of Civic Humanism (“Apology”) wholly appropriate to the governance requirements of the embryonic Modern World-System. Table of Contents Preface Introduction On Heterogeneity and the Origin(s) of De Indis of Hugo Grotius Chapter One The Genealogy of Grotian Morals: The Grotian Heritage, Natural Law, and Hegemony I The Genealogy of the Grotian Heritage II Grotius and Utopia III International law and natural law IV Hegemony and Governance: The Juridical legitimation of international Public order V The Grotian Heritage and 'liberal Millenarianism' Chapter Two 'The Force of Law': Critical Legal Studies and Deconstruction I Apologetics and Utopias: Martti Koskenniemi and David Kennedy II World-system Analysis, Post-colonialism, and international law III Histoire Structurale/Grewe's Epochs: Hegemony And The Early Modern World-system IV The Early Modern World-system as Epoch of Global Governance V Heterogeneity, neo-medievalism and the Early Modern World-system VI Histoire Evenementielle/primitive legal Scholarship and Histoire Structurale/early Modern World-system: Vitoria, Suarez, Gentili, and Grotius Chapter Three Arche-Trace (I)/Imperium: Holland as Hegemon within the Early Modern World-System I Grotius and L'histoire Evenementielle II Privateering and booty III Respublica Christiana: The European World System IV riginal Accumulation and Systemic Cycles of Accumulation V The Capitalist logic of Power and Hegemonic Transition VI Universalism and Imperium VII Monarchia Universalis i: Hierocracy VIII The Treaty of Tordesillas: Imperium as Conveyance of Dominium IX Monarchia Universalis ii: Imperium X Estado da India Oriental XI Territorialism and the 'Failed' Hegemon XII 'Events are Dust': Estado da India and L'histoire Structurale Chapter Four Arche-Trace (II)/Dominium: Divisible Sovereignty and the VOC as Corporate Sovereign I Divisible Sovereignty, Heterogeneity, and Deconstruction II Thomism Contra Papalism III Conciliarism and Heterogeneity IV Suarez and neo-Thomism V Divisible Sovereignty and Global Governance VI Corporate Sovereignty VII Corporate Sovereignty and the Joint-Stock Companies VIII 'The State within the State': The VoC as Trans-national legal Personality IX Apologia: Proprietas and Occupatio Duplex X Utopia: Liberum Commercium and Res Extra Commercium XI aturalist ontology: 'Thick' and 'Thin' XII Bellum Iustum and Res Extra Commercium XIII Imperium Contra Dominium: The logic of the Dangerous Supplement Chapter Five Trace (I)/Respublica: Apologia and Humanism I 'Thin' ontology: Civitas II The 'World-city': Dutch Hegemony and De Indis III Grotius, Respublica and the Capitalist World-economy IV De Republica Emendanda: Divisible Sovereignty, iterability, and intra-state Relations V The Dutch War of national liberation: Respublica and Con-federalism VI Respublica and Minimal Moral life VII Respublica and Self-Defence Chapter Six TRACE (II): Utopia and Late Scholasticism I Respublica and the Privatisation of Just War II De Iure Praedae: Corporate Sovereignty and Just War III Respublica and the Privatisation of international Authority IV The Politicisation of Presence: between Apologia and Utopia V Utopia: Ius Naturale and Conciliarism VI Respublica and original Personality (Chapter Seven 'Concerning The Indies': Ius Naturale, Privateers,) Chapter Seven 'Concerning The Indies': Ius Naturales, Privateers, Pirates and Anti-Systemic Movements I The indian ocean World System II The Corporate Sovereign as 'Pariah Entrepreneur': The Protection industry III Erasing the Corporate Sovereign IV De Rebus Belgicis and the Juridical nomad V 'The Private Avenger': The Privatisation of Ius Bellum VI The Privateer/Pirate as Juridical nomad: Piracy and Anti-Systematic Movements VII Government Contra Governance: De Indis, Heterogeneity, and Divisible Sovereignty VIII The Modern World-system and Shadow networks IX Grotius Contra Gentili: Res Extra Commercium Contra Iurisdictio Chapter Eight 'Concerning the Indians': Ius Naturale, Infidels, and Natives I Vitoria and the Pirates: The Portuguese as Pirates/infidels II Grotius and indigenous Dispossession: Apologia and Utopia III Territorialism and the logic of Monopoly: Mercantile-Capitalism as Discourse IV Vitoria and the indians: 'Dispossessing the barbarian' V occidentalism and orientalism: The Transversal of the indies Conclusion The New Law of the Earth Index Intended for the professional academic and graduate student, this book utilizes the methodology of "New Stream" legal scholarship in an extended critical "exegesis" of Hugo Grotius' "De Indis."