International Law and International Relations
An International Organization Reader

This 2007 volume helps readers understand the relationship between international law and international relations (IL/IR).

Beth A. Simmons (Edited by), Richard H. Steinberg (Edited by)

9780521861861, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 9 April 2007

776 pages, 30 tables
22.9 x 15.2 x 4.7 cm, 1.32 kg

'… the articles they have chosen are undeniably 'important milestones towards making IL/IR a central concern of scholarly research in international affairs'.' Cambrian Law Review

This 2007 volume is intended to help readers understand the relationship between international law and international relations (IL/IR). As a testament to this dynamic area of inquiry, new research on IL/IR is now being published in a growing list of traditional law reviews and disciplinary journals. The excerpted articles in this volume, all of which were first published in International Organization, represent some of the most important research since serious social science scholarship began in this area more than twenty five years ago. They are important milestones toward making IL/IR a central concern of scholarly research in international affairs. The contributions cover some of the main topics of international affairs to provide readers with a range of theoretical perspectives, concepts, and heuristics that can be used to analyze the relationship between international law and international relations.

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.

Subject Areas: International law [LB], Macroeconomics [KCB], Economic theory & philosophy [KCA], International relations [JPS], Political science & theory [JPA]