According to Halvard Leira and Benjamin de Carvalho, the decision of European states to establish consulships in foreign ports was responsible for the intertwinement of diplomacy and privateering at the end of the seventeenth century. Based on a case study – the arrest of Swedish prizes in the Netherlands in 1644 – this contribution will explain that the connection of diplomacy, privateering and prize law existed long before states appointed consuls to control the activities of their own privateers. Already in the first half of the seventeenth century, the state’s direction of foreign policy, the activities of diplomats and military and political developments decided the outcome of prize cases. Governments always had to make compromises between the implementation of prize law and the maintenance of their political interests.

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奖项法、国际外交和 17 世纪外国奖项的待遇：案例研究

根据 Halvard Leira 和 Benjamin de Carvalho 的说法，欧洲国家在外国港口设立领事馆的决定是造成 17 世纪末外交和私掠活动交织在一起的原因。基于一个案例研究——1644 年瑞典在荷兰逮捕了瑞典人的奖品——这一贡献将解释外交、私掠和奖赏法的联系早在国家任命领事来控制其私掠者的活动之前就存在了。早在 17 世纪上半叶，国家的外交政策方向、外交官的活动以及军事和政治发展就决定了案件的胜负。政府总是不得不在奖品法的实施和维护其政治利益之间做出妥协。