Teaches how and why states make, break, and uphold international law using accessible explanations and contemporary international issues.

Explores the ideological, political, and economic stakes of struggles over international law's history and its relation to empire and capitalism.

Today international law is everywhere. Wars are fought and opposed in its name. It is invoked to claim rights and to challenge them, to indict or support politi

This book brings together 18 contributions by authors from different legal systems and backgrounds. They address the political implications of the writing of th

This work tries to bridge the gap between international lawyers and those political scientists who write about international politics. In the first part, the au