Synopses & Reviews
This volume helps readers understand the relationship between international law and international relations (IL/IR).
Synopsis
Written to help readers understand the relationship between international law and international relations (IL/IR). The excerpted articles, first published in International Organization, represent important research. The contributions cover main topics of international affairs and provide theoretical perspectives, concepts, and heuristics regarding the relationship between international law and international relations.
Table of Contents
Part I. International Regimes Theory: Does Law Matter?: 1. Structural causes and regime consequences: regime as intervening variables (1982) Stephen D. Krasner; 2. The demand for international regimes (1982) Robert O. Keohane; Part II. Commitment and Compliance: 3. Democratic states and commitments in international relations (1996) Kurt Taylor Gaubatz; 4. On compliance (1993) Abram Chayes and Antonia Handler Chayes; 5. Is the good news about compliance good news about cooperation (1996) George Downs, David M. Rocke and Peter Barsoom; Part III. Legalization and Its Limits: 6. The concept of legalization (2000) Kenneth Abbot, Robert O. Keohane, Andrew Moravcsik, Anne-Marie Slaughter and Duncan Snidal; 7. Legalized dispute resolution: interstate and transnational (2000) Robert O. Keohane, Andrew Moravcsik and Anne-Marie Slaughter; 8. Legalization, trade liberalization and domestic politics: a cautionary note (2000) Judith Goldstein and Lisa L. Martin; 9. Comment on 'legalization and world politics' (2001) Martha Finnemore and Stephen J. Toope; Part IV. International Law and International Norms: 10. Quasi-states, dual regimes and neoclassical theory: international jurisprudence and the third world (1987) Robert H. Jackson; 11. Which norms matter? revisiting the 'failure' of internationalism (1997) Jeffrey W. Legro; 12. The territorial integrity norm: international boundaries and the use of force (2001) Mark Zacher; Part V. Treaty Design and Dynamics: 13. Why are some international agreements informal? (1991) Charles Lipson; 14. The politics of dispute settlement design: explaining legalism in regional trade pacts (2000) James McCall Smith; 15. Loosening the ties that bind: a learning model of agreement flexibility (2001) Barbara Koremenos; 16. Driving with the rearview mirror: on the rational science of institutional design (2001) Alexander Wendt; 17. The dynamics of international law: the interaction of normative and operating systems (2003) Paul F. Diehl, Charlotte Ku and Daniel Zamora; Part VI. Law and Legal Institutions: 18. Europe before the court: a political theory of legal integration (1993) Anne-Marie Slaughter and Walter Mattli; 19. The European Court of Justice, national governments, and legal integration in the European Union (1998) Geoffrey Garrett, R. Daniel Kelemen and Heiner Schultz; Part VII. Other Substantive Areas of International Law; i. Security: 20. Scraps of paper? Agreements and the durability of peace (2003) Virginia Page Fortna; ii. Trade: 21. In the shadow of law or power? Consensus-based bargaining and outcomes in the GATT/WTO (2002) Richard H. Steinberg; iii. Money: 22. The legalization of international monetary affairs (2000) Beth Simmons; iv. War crimes: 23. Constructing an atrocities regime: the politics of war crimes tribunals (2001) Christopher Rudolph; v. Human rights: 24. The origins of human rights regimes: democratic delegation in postwar Europe (2000) Andrew Moravcsik; vi. Environment: 25. Regime design matters: international oil pollution and treaty compliance (1994) Ronald B. Mitchell; vii. Intellectual property: 26. The regime complex for plant genetic resources (2004) Kal Raustiala and David G. Victor.