Economic Foundations of International Law

by Alan O. Sykes and Eric A. Posner

The ever-increasing exchange of goods and ideas among nations, as well as cross-border pollution, global warming, and international crime, pose urgent questions for international law. Here, two respected scholars provide an intellectual framework for assessing these pressing legal problems from a rational choice perspective.

The approach assumes that states are rational, forward-looking agents which use international law to address the actions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674066995
• ISBN13: 9780674066991
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"