War and International Adjudication: Reflections on the 1899 Peace Conference

The purpose of this essay is to renew our sense of the 1899 conference in terms both of what happened then and of how those events, beliefs, and objectives manifest themselves today. This essay looks back to war and peace at the end of the nineteenth century, to how those ideas were understood and how it was thought that arbitration and judicial settlement of disputes were to play a role in ensuring a more peaceful world.