Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. The building blocks of international order -- The economics of political borders / Enrico Spolaore -- The economics of state emergence and collapse / Bridget O. Coggins with Ishita Kala -- Economic analysis of territorial sovereignty / Abraham Bell -- Part II. Sources of law -- The economic analysis of international treaty law / Francesco Parisi and Daniel Pi -- Soft law / Andrew T. Guzman and Timothy Meyer -- The emergence and evolution of customary international law / Francesco Parisi and Daniel Pi -- Part III. Enforcement -- Treaty enforcement / Paul B. Stephan -- The interaction between domestic and international law / Tom Ginsburg -- Part IV. Applications and extensions -- Atrocity, policy, and the laws of war : what does political science have to say to law? / James D. Morrow -- Behavioral economic analysis of international law / Anne van Aaken and Tomer Broude.

Through original and incisive contributions from leading scholars, this handbook applies economics and other rational choice methods to understanding public international law.