What We've Learned, What's Next
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2013
After two decades, and twenty-five chapters, of international law and international relations (IL/IR) scholarship, where do we stand? More specifically, what are the value-added insights of IL/IR relative to the extant scholarship in IL and IR taken separately, what are the weaknesses or lacunae in the literature, and what productive research agenda lies ahead? In this concluding chapter, we begin to outline preliminary answers to these questions.
The chapter is organized in five parts. Following this introduction, the first three sections address the volume's core thematic issues, asking what IL/IR has taught us about the making, interpretation of, and compliance with international law. In each area, we demonstrate that IL/IR scholarship has generated substantial theoretical insight and empirical knowledge about international law. However, in each case, this same scholarship has exhibited blind spots and gaps that can, and should, be addressed in a new generation of IL/IR scholarship that draws in a more balanced way on insights and methods from both disciplines.
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