This book offers a critique of the principal contemporary approaches to international law alongside its own novel perspectives.

B. S. Chimni is Professor of International Law at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

1. Introduction; 2. The classical realist approach to international law: the world of Hans Morgenthau; 3. The policy-oriented or new haven approach to international law: the contributions of Myres McDougal and Harold Lasswell; 4. Richard Falk and the Grotian quest: toward transdisciplinary jurisprudence; 5. New approaches to international law: the critical scholarship of David Kennedy and Martti Koskenneimi; 6. Feminist approaches to international law: the work of Hilary Charlesworth and Christine Chinkin; 7. Toward an integrated Marxist approach to international law (IMAIL).