... from the standpoint of the newstatecraft, the period might be known more aptly as the Age ofCalculation than as the Age of Reason. This calculation was in the spiritof the new sciences of mathematics ... the state of war’, on the one hand, and ‘its acts’, on the other. A state of war can exist even in the absence of any acts of waron the part of either side. ‘War’, concluded Grotius, ‘is the ... with the law ofneutrality rather than of war as such.18From the standpoint of the legalconception of war, the key developments were the two dissident schoolsof thought, which predated the...