This book explores the best mechanisms for helping bring about states’ compliance with international treaties. Many recent treaties include noncompliance mechanisms (NCMs) to facilitate implementation and promote parties’ compliance with their obligations. These NCMs exist alongside the formal dispute resolution processes of international courts and tribunals. The authors bring to…
When international courts are given sweeping powers, why would they ever refuse to use them? The book explains how and when courts employ strategies for institutional survival and resilience forbearance and audacity, which help them adjust their sovereignty costs to pre-empt and mitigate backlash and political pushback.