The role of law in world politics has become a major part of the study of international relations in the last fifteen years. This six-volume set brings together in a single source articles that reflect the spectrum of theoretical and empirical work on International Law in the social sciences. Together they address the central questions about the necessity, development and role of International Law:

- How do international norms and rules about behavior develop?

- Do they influence important aspects of interactions among states and other entities?

- How do they condition international politics?

Part 1: Approaches to the Study of International Law

History and Background, Realism and International Law: Constructivist and Normative Approaches: Legalization and Judicialization:

Part 2: International Law and International Relations: The Conceptual Terrain

Sovereignty,International and Domestic Settings

Institutional Design,Compliance, Adjudication

Democracies and International Law

Part 3: Issue Areas

Economic and Property Rights Cooperation

Security, Use of Force, and the Laws of War

Human Rights, Humanitarian Intervention and War Crimes

PART ONE - Approaches to the Study of International Law
History and Background
The Role of International Law During the Period of Liberalism and Imperialism - Gerhart Niemeyer
The Variety of International Rules - Anthony Clark Arend
International Relations and International Law: Two Optics - Robert O Keohane
Realism and International Law
The Main Problems of International Law - Hans J Morgenthau
The Image of Law in International Relations - Martti Koskenniemi, Carl Schmitt and Hans Morgenthau
International Law and International Order - Hedley Bull
Power and International Law - Michael Byers
Customary International Law - Jack L Goldsmith and Eric A Posner
Moral and Legal Rhetoric in International Relations: A Rational Choice Perspective - Jack L Goldsmith and Eric A Posner
Rational Functionalist Approaches
Rational Choice and Functionalist Explanations - Robert O. Keohane
A Functional Theory of International Regimes - Robert O. Keohane
Constructivist and Normative Approaches
Introduction - Christian Reus-Smit
How do Norms Matter? - Friedrich V Kratochwil
Toward a Theory of International Relations: Some Conceptual and Measurement Issues - Gary Goertz and Paul F Diehl
Explaining the Strategic Behavior of States: International Law as System Structure - Stephen A Kocs
Legitimacy in the International System - Thomas M Franck
Legalization and Judicialization
The Concept of Legalization - Kenneth W Abbott, Robert O Keohane, Andrew Moravcsik, Anne-Marie Slaughter and Duncan Snidal
Judicialization and the Construction of Governance - Alec Stone Sweet
PART TWO - International Law and International Relations - the Conceptual Terrain
Sovereignty
Sovereignty and Its Discontents - Stephen D Krasner
A New Sovereignty Regime - Robert H Jackson
Who is Sovereign? - Richard H Steinberg
International Integration and Democracy: No Love at First Sight - Eric Stein
International and Domestic Settings
International Law and Domestic Institutions: Reconciling North American "Unfair" Trade Laws - Judith Goldstein
Domestic Politics and International Resources: What Role for International Law? - Eyal Benvenisti
The European Union¿s Legal System and Domestic Policy: Spillover or Backlash? - Karen J Alter
How Do International Institutions Matter? The Domestic Impact of International Rules and Norms - Andrew P Cortell and James W Davis, Jr.
How International Human Rights Law Affects Domestic Law - Roger S Clark
International Commitment and Domestic Politics: A Note on the Maastricht Case - Ralph Rotte
Democracies and International Law
International Law in a World of Liberal States - Anne-Marie Slaughter
Do Liberal States Behave Better? A Critique of Slaughter¿s Liberal Theory - Jose E Alvarez
Democratic States and Commitment in International Relations - Kurt Taylor Gaubatz
The Argument in a Nutshell - Charles Lipson
Uniting for Peace?: Democracies and United Nations Peace Operations after the Cold War - James H Lebovic
PART THREE - Institutions and Theories of Compliance
International Design
The Design of International Agreements - Andrew T Guzman
The Politics of Dispute Settlement Design: Explaining Legalism in Regional Trade Pacts - James McCall Smith
Contracting around International Uncertainty - Barbara Korremenos
The Optimal Design of International Trade Institutions: Uncertainty and Escape - B Peter Rosendorff and Helen V Milner
Compliance
Compliance with International Agreements - Beth A Simmons
International Law, International Relations and Compliance - Kal Raustiala and Anne-Marie Slaughter
Is the Good News about Compliance Good News about Cooperation? - George W Downs, David M Rocke and Peter N Barsoom
Reputation, Compliance and International Law - George W Downs and Michael A Jones
Compliance and Post-Agreement Bargaining - Christer Joensson and Jonas Tallberg
Introduction: Law and compliance at different levels - Michael Zuern
Contested Compliance: Interventions on the Normative Structure of World Politics - Antje Wiener
Adjudication
Toward a Theory of Effective Supranational Adjudication - Lawrence R Helfer and Anne-Marie Slaughter
Capacity, Commitment, and Compliance: International Institutes and Territorial Disputes - Beth A Simmons
European before the Court: A Political Theory if Legal Integration - Anne-Marie Burley and Walter Mattli
The European Court of Justice, National Governments, and Legal Integration in the European Union - Geoffrey Garrett, R Daniel Kelemen and Heiner Schulz
Private Justice in a Global Economy: From Litigation to Arbitration - Walter Mattli
Law, politics, and international governance - Wayne Sandholtz and Alec Stone Sweet
How International is "International" Law? - Kurt Taylor Gaubatz and Matthew MacArthur
Trials and Errors: Principle and Pragmatism in Strategies of International Justice - Jack Snyder and Leslie Vinjamuri
PART FOUR - Issue Areas
Economic and Property Rights Cooperation
In the Shadow of Law or Power? Consensus-Based Bargaining and Outcomes in the GATT/WTO - Richard H Steinberg
To Settle of Empanel? An Empirical Analysis of Litigation and Settlement at the World Trade Organization - Andrew Guzman and Beth A Simmons
Developing Countries as Plaintiffs and Defendants in GATT/WTO Trade Disputes - Chad P Bown
International Law and State Behavior: Commitment and Compliance in International Monetary Affairs - Beth A Simmons
Moments in law: contestation and settlement in the history of intellectual property - Susan Sell and Christopher May
Making Rules for Governing Global Commons: The Case of Deep-Sea Mining - Thomas Braeuninger and Thomas Koenig
Security, Use of Force, and the Laws of War
The Territorial Integrity Norm: International Boundaries and the Use of Force - Mark W Zacher
International Legal Norms and the Preservation of Peace, 1820-1964: Some Evidence and Bivariate Relationships - Charles W Kegley and Gregory A Raymond
The Collapse of Consent: Is a Legalist Use-of-Force Regime Possible? - Michael J Glennon
The Laws of War, Common Conjectures, and Legal Systems in International Politics - James D Morrow
The New Law of War: Legitimizing Hi-Tech and Infrastructural Violence - Thomas W Smith
Which Norms Matter? Revisiting the "Failure" of Internationalism - Jeffrey W Legro
Scraps of Paper? Agreements and Durability of Peace - Virginia Page Fortna
Human Rights, Humanitarian Intervention and War Crimes
Reevaluating Alliance Reliability: Specific Threats, Specific Promises - Brett Ashley Leeds, Andrew G Long and Sara McLaughlin Mitchell
The Origins of Human Rights Regimes: Democratic Delegation in Postwar Europe - Andrew Moravcsik
Sovereignty Relinquished? Explaining Commitment to the International Human Rights Covenants, 1966-1999 - Wade M Cole
Do Human Rights Treaties Make a Difference? - Oona A Hathaway
The socialization of international human rights norms into domestic human practices: introduction - Thomas Risse and Kathryn Sikkink
International Relations Theory, International Law, and the Regime Governing Atrocities in Internal Conflicts - Kenneth W Abbott
Victor¿s Justice or the Law? Judging and Punishing at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia - James Meernik
Explaining the International Criminal Court: A "Practice Test" for Rationalist and Constructivist Approaches - Caroline Fehl
Environment
Compliance with International Treaties: Lessons from International Oil Pollution - Ronald B Mitchell
Getting Countries to Comply with International Agreements - Edith Brown Weiss and Harold K Jacobsen
Measuring the Effectiveness of International Environmental Regimes - Carsten Helm and Detlef Sprinz
Trade-Environment Negotiations in the EU, NAFTA, and WTO: Regional Trajectories of Rule Development - Richard H Steinberg