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

States whose agents engage in torture in a given year have a 93% chance of continuing to
torture in the following year. What leads governments to stop the use of torture? We focus on …

A common public perception in OECD countries suggests that refugees are mostly
“economic migrants” in search of a better standard of living. Does the empirical record belie …

International courts have proliferated in the international system, with over one hundred
judicial or quasi-judicial bodies in existence today. This book develops a rational legal …

Despite warnings of interstate conflict over shared water resources, states are reaching
hundreds of treaties and agreements over their international rivers. We have extensive …

This paper seeks to understand why some countries accept the jurisdiction of the
International Court of Justice (ICJ) more readily than others. The theory focuses on …

To manage the transboundary water resources of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM)
River Basin, it is important to identify and understand the complex upstream-downstream …

This paper explores the relationship between domestic legal systems and the design of
commitments to the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Empirical analyses demonstrate that …

Do domestic legal systems affect states' propensity to form military alliances? This article,
building upon the existing research in international relations, adopts a socio-legal approach …

Reputação internacional é um objeto do direito internacional cujo valor se dá pela
atribuição positiva ou negativa a respeito de um Estado pelos demais ou, de outro modo …