This 2004 book aims at advancing our understanding of the influences
international norms and international institutions have over the incentives of states to
cooperate on issues such as environment and trade.
Contributors adopt two different approaches in examining this question. One
approach focuses on the constitutive elements of the international legal order, including
customary international law, soft law and framework conventions, and on the types of
incentives states have, such as domestic incentives and reputation. The other approach
examines specific issues in the areas of international environment protection and
international trade. The combined outcome of these two approaches is an understanding of
the forces that pull states toward closer cooperation or prevent them from doing so, and
the impact of different types of international norms and diverse institutions on the
motivation of states. The insights gained suggest ways for enhancing states' incentives to
cooperate through the design of norms and institutions
Table of Contents
1. Introduction Eyal Benvenisti and Moshe Hirsch
2. International law and international relations theory Anne-Marie
Slaughter
3. Transformation: alternative pathways to international legalization
Kenneth W. Abbott and Duncan Snidal
4. Customary international law as a judicial tool for promoting efficiency Eyal
Benvenisti
5. Reputation, cooperation and development George W. Downs and Michael A.
Jones
6. Rethinking compliance with international law Edith Brown Weiss
7. Compliance with international norms in the age of globalization: two
theoretical perspectives Mosche Hirsch
8. Compliance and non-compliance with international norms in territorial disputes:
the Latin American record of arbitrations Arie M. Kacowicz
9. International trade and domestic politics: the domestic sources of
international trade agreements and institutions Helen V. Milner
10. Human rights, developing countries and the WTO constraint: the very thing that
makes you rich makes me poor? Petros C. Mavroidis
11. Back to court after Shrimp/Turtle: India's challenge to labor and
environmental linkages in the EC generalized system of preferences Robert Howse.
332 pages, Paperback