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This major Handbook brings together the worlds leading scholars of international relations to provide a state of the art review and indispensable guide to the field. A genuinely international undertaking, the Handbook reviews the many historical, philosophical, analytical and normative roots to the discipline and the key contemporary topics of research and debate today. An essential benchmark publication for all advanced undergraduates, graduate students and academics in politics and international relations.
International Law, International Relations and Compliance
International Law, International Relations and Compliance
Commitments are a persistent feature of international affairs. Disagreement over the effect of international commitments and the causes of compliance with them is equally persistent. Yet in the last decade the long-standing divide between those who believed that international rules per se shaped state behavior and those who saw such rules as epiphenomenal or insignificant has given way to a more nuanced and complex debate. Regime theory, originally focused on the creation and persistence of regimes, increasingly emphasizes variations in regimes and in their impact on behavior. The legal quality of regime rules is one important source of regime variation. At the same time the proliferation and evolution of international legal agreements, organizations and ...
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