International law and international relations scholars analyse the factors that enhance or impede cooperation among states.

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.