Anarchy and Order: The Interplay of Politics and Law in International Relations.(Review) (book reviews)
American Political Science Review, December, 1998 by Kocs, Stephen A.
By James C. Hsiung. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1997. 245p. $55.00.
Stephen A. Kocs, College of the Holy Cross
There is a wide gap in international politics between states' everyday foreign policy concerns, which revolve to a large extent around the negotiation and implementation of international legal agreements, and the theoretical analysis of international structure, which (at least in the United States) tends to treat international law as though it were irrelevant or nonexistent. Although James C. Hsiung is not the first person to take note of this gap, his book is one of the few to attempt to bridge it. Hsiung's main target is neorealism, which he castigates for failing to recognize the role of international legal constraints in ordering and...
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