Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Law and International Relations

by Dunoff, Jeffrey L.; Pollack, Mark A.

• ISBN13: 9781107020740
• ISBN10: 1107020743
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-12-24
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

International Law and International Relations: Synthesizing Insights from Interdisciplinary Scholarship brings together the most influential contemporary writers in the fields of international law and international relations to take stock of what we know about the making, interpretation, and enforcement of international law. The contributions to this volume critically explore what recent interdisciplinary work reveals about the design and workings of international institutions, the various roles played by international and domestic courts, and the factors that enhance compliance with international law. The volume also explores how interdisciplinary work has advanced theoretical understandings of the causes and consequences of the increased legalization of international affairs.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Setting the Stage

International law and international relations: taking stock

Law, legalization, and politics: an agenda for the next generation of IR/IL scholars

Theorizing International Law

Institutionalism and international law

Liberal theories of international law

Constructivism and international law

Wanted: dead or alive - realist approaches to international law

Making International Law

Flexibility in international agreements

Hard and soft law Gregory

NGOs in international relations (theory)

Regulatory networks

Lawmaking by international organizations: perspectives from IL/IR theory

Institutional proliferation and the international legal order

Legitimacy: concepts and conceptions/normative and descriptive

The Interpretation and Application of International Law

The Multiple roles of international courts and tribunals: enforcement, dispute resolution, constitutional and administrative review

The design of dispute settlement procedures in international agreements

Whose agents? the interpretation of international law in national courts

International judicial independence

The politics of treaty interpretation: variations and explanations across international tribunals

Enforcement, Compliance, and Effectiveness

The engines of compliance

Coercive enforcement in international law

Reputation in international relations and international law theory

Open economy law

Persuading to comply: on the deployment and avoidance of legal argumentation

Against compliance

Conclusions

International law and international relations: twenty years later

Reviewing two decades of IL/IR scholarship: what we've learned, what's next

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