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Hugo Grotius  

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  • Hugo Grotius (1583–1645) was a Dutch jurist. He is most famous for having written De Jure Belli ac Pacis (The Laws of War and Peace, 1625), a text commonly acknowledged to have ushered in the modern natural rights tradition and the study of international relations. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Grotius, Hugo]

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