Peter Schröder is going to present a paper on 'Trust and Mistrust in Early Eighteenth Century International Political Thought, 1713-1763'

This project builds on my previous work on seventeenth century international political thought to explore the role of trust and mistrust between European states in the emergence of international political thought through the first half of the eighteenth century, from the Peace of Utrecht in 1713 to the Peace of Paris in 1763. In the short introductory part I will give an overview of some of my leading research questions my project wants to tackle, before the second part presents a preliminary case study of two eighteenth century natural law thinkers, i.e. Johann Jacob Schmauß (1690-1757) and Johann Gottlieb Heineccius (1681-1741).