Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Grotius and Modern Natural Rights: Beyond a Secular History; 2 Natural Right and Natural Rights; 3 Two Concepts of Justice; 4 The Origins of the State: How and Why?; 5 The Bounds of Coercive Authority: Sovereignty and Rebellion; 6 Rights and the Responsibility (Not) to Punish; 7 Punitive War and International Responsibility; 8 Divine Government: Why You Can't Ever Really Pay for Your Crimes; 9 Transcending Natural Rights, or Rethinking the Foundations of Modern Political Secularism: Grotius and the History of Political Thought