The discipline of political science has developed an active research program on the
development, operation, spread, and impact of international legal norms, agreements, and …

The empirical literature that examines cross-national patterns of state repression seeks to
discover a set of political, economic, and social conditions that are consistently associated …

Democratic and autocratic states routinely violate their international agreements protecting
human rights. Scholars typically link ratification and compliance behavior theoretically but …

The ultimate litmus test of compliance theories occurs in situations where states' interests
are directly opposed, such as competing interstate claims over territory, maritime areas, and …

Bilateral investment treaties (BITs) have become the dominant source of rules on foreign
direct investment (FDI), yet these treaties vary significantly in at least one important respect …

Why and how do international courts justify decisions with citations to their own case law?
We argue that, like domestic review courts, international courts use precedent at least in part …

Paradoxically, many governments that persistently violate human rights have also ratified
international human rights treaties that empower their citizens to file grievances against …

Following the technological rise of surveillance cameras and their subsequent proliferation
in public places, the use of information gathered by such means for investigative and …

This new textbook provides students with an accessible overview of the logic, evolution,
application and outcomes of the five major approaches of the growing field of international …

Abstract The European Union is best understood as a liberal power–as an actor that is
composed of liberal democracies whose interests, identities and institutions motivate and …