Shavana Musa is a Lecturer in international law, security and human rights at the University of Manchester, and a Fulbright Scholar in Cyber Security at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC. She is also Founder and CEO of Ontogeny Global, a revolutionary risk management firm. She has conducted projects on human rights within the international investment regime, child labour, as well as the complexities surrounding law and technology.

'Shavana Musa shows that further research on the lesser-known historical precedents could be a very promising road to take. Her impressively comprehensive and detailed study provides the perfect start for such research. She provokes her readers to think along new lines and to consider ideas off the mainstream. This makes her book an important contribution to the field.' Fin-Jasper Langmack, Heidelberg Journal of International Law

• 1. Introduction; 2. Peace treaties and Admiralty Courts; 3. The Anglo-Dutch wars; 4. The Silesian loan affair and the Seven Years War; 5. The American War of Independence; 6. The Anglo-Argentine Commission; 7. The American Civil War; 8. The Second Anglo-Boer War; 9. Reparation and international law from the twentieth century; 10. A peaceful and normative conclusion?; List of cases; List of treaties, Legislation and other legal instruments; Bibliography; Index.

Shavana Musa is a Lecturer in international law, security and human rights at the University of Manchester, and a Fulbright Scholar in Cyber Security at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC. She is also Founder and CEO of Ontogeny Global, a revolutionary risk management firm. She has conducted projects on human rights within the international investment regime, child labour, as well as the complexities surrounding law and technology.

'Shavana Musa shows that further research on the lesser-known historical precedents could be a very promising road to take. Her impressively comprehensive and detailed study provides the perfect start for such research. She provokes her readers to think along new lines and to consider ideas off the mainstream. This makes her book an important contribution to the field.' Fin-Jasper Langmack, Heidelberg Journal of International Law

• 1. Introduction; 2. Peace treaties and Admiralty Courts; 3. The Anglo-Dutch wars; 4. The Silesian loan affair and the Seven Years War; 5. The American War of Independence; 6. The Anglo-Argentine Commission; 7. The American Civil War; 8. The Second Anglo-Boer War; 9. Reparation and international law from the twentieth century; 10. A peaceful and normative conclusion?; List of cases; List of treaties, Legislation and other legal instruments; Bibliography; Index.