Koen Stapelbroek and Antonio Trampus - The legacy of Vattel's Droit des gens: contexts, concepts, reception, translation and diffusion.- PART I: Vattel's ideas and his context.- Radoslaw Szymanski - Vattel as an intermediary between the economic society of Berne and Poland.- Frederic I?va - "A poor imitation of Grotius and Pufendorf?" Biographical uncertainties and the laborious genesis of Vattel's Droit des gens.- Alberto Carrera - The citizen's right to leave his country: The concept of exile in Vattel's Droit des Gens.- Koen Stapelbroek - The foundations of Vattel's 'system' of politics and the Seven Years' War: moral philosophy, luxury and the constitutional commercial state.- Antonella Alimento - Publication strategies and reform politics: the French circulation of Vattel's Droit des gens.- PART II: The reception of Vattel in Italy and elsewhere.- Antonio Trampus - Good government and the sovereignty of small states: the Eighteenth and Nineteenth century reception of the Droit des gens.- Danilo Pedemonte - Vattel in the Republic of Genua: theory and practice.- Alberto Clerici - Vattel in the Papal State. Anti-Prussian propaganda and the Law of nations in Italy during the Seven Years' War.- Gert-Fredrik Malt - Vattel's system for subjects in international law and the establishment of Norway as a Nation in 1814.- Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina - The legacy of Vattel's Droit des gens in the long nineteenth century.-