International actors at times seek to help bring peace, democracy, and human rights. Studies
of how international actors help enforce political bargains between incumbent governments …

A growing body of empirical studies has provided important insights into our understanding
of the causes and effects of codified human rights. Yet empirical research has treated human …

Do national legislatures constitute a mechanism by which commitments to international
human rights treaties can be made credible? Treaty ratification can activate domestic …

How do international arms control treaties influence state policies? This article investigates
this question by analyzing the efficacy of the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). Despite …

Conceptualizing comparative international law/Anthea Roberts, Paul Stephan, Pierre-
Hugues Verdier & Mila Versteeg--Methodological guidance: how to select and develop …

Existing research has paid increasing attention to the role of political institutions such as
legislatures and opposition parties in autocracies. So far, however, the relationship between …

The growing literature explaining why repressive regimes ratify human rights treaties fails to
explain why some regimes take the additional step to delegate authority to their people to …

International relations scholarship has made significant strides in explaining how states
design treaty obligations and why they accept treaty commitments. However, far less …

State repression committed upon political opposition is one of the most commonly
reoccurring events in the age of the nation state. A popular question has been whether …

Texts and Materials on International Human Rights offers a carefully tailored overview of the
subject that covers sources and theories, institutions and structures, and substantive rights …