Table of Contents:
  • FAITH AND REASON OF STATE:LESSONS FROM EARLY MODERNEUROPE AND CARDINAL RICHELIEU; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION:THE CONTEMPORARY RESURGENCEOF RELIGION AND THE 'DISTANT MIRROR'OF EARLY MODERN FRANCE; ABSTRACT; A. THE RESURGENCE OF RELIGION; B.A 'DISTANT MIRROR'?25 EARLY MODERN FRANCE; THE FORMULATION OF THE CONCEPTOF REASON OF STATE INEARLY MODERN EUROPE; ABSTRACT; A. REASON OF STATE:AN EARLY MODERN EUROPEAN CONCEPT; B. INTRODUCING REASON OF STATE: NICCOLÒMACHIAVELLI AND FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI.
  • C. CONSTRUCTING A MODERATE REASON OF STATE:FROM INNOCENT GENTILLET TO GIOVANNI BOTEROAND JUSTUS LIPSIUSFAITH AND REASON OF STATEIN RICHELIEU'S DOMESTIC POLICIES; ABSTRACT; A. FACING THE HUGUENOT CHALLENGE; B. CONFRONTING DUELING; C. FAITH IN ABSOLUTISM; REASON OF STATE IN RICHELIEU'SFOREIGN POLICY; ABSTRACT; A. THE HABSBURG CHALLENGE INEARLY MODERN EUROPE; B. THE CRISIS OVER THE VALTELLINE AND FRANCE'SENTRY INTO THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR; C. THE PRIMACY OF REASON OF STATE; CONCLUSION: REASON OF STATEAND CARDINAL RICHELIEU:LESSONS FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY; ABSTRACT.
  • A. REASON OF STATE AND INTERNATIONALRELATIONS THEORYB. THE STATESMANSHIP OF CARDINAL RICHELIEU:LESSONS FOR IRAQ AND BEYOND; REFERENCES; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; INDEX.