Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: A Social Scientific Approach to International Law -- 2. Jurisdiction -- 3. Customary International Law -- 4. Treaty -- 5. International Organization -- 6. Interfunctional Linkage and Fragmentation -- 7. International Adjudication -- Afterword --...

Political Economy (PE) has been used in the national realm to understand political outcomes, including laws and jurisprudence applied to all substantive matters. PE identifies the interests of relevant actors as well as the characteristics of the institutions through which they pursue their...

Customary international law is an enigma. It is produced by the decentralized actions of states, and it generally lacks centralized enforcement mechanisms. Political science realists and some rationalist legal scholars argue that customary international law cannot affect state behavior: that it...