Fabbricotti, Alberta --- "Introduction" [2016] ELECD 891; in Fabbricotti, Alberta (ed), "The Political Economy of International Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016) 1

Book Title: The Political Economy of International Law

Editor(s): Fabbricotti, Alberta

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781785364396

Section Title: Introduction

Author(s): Fabbricotti, Alberta

Number of pages: 6

Abstract/Description:

As the title clearly suggests, this book ambitiously aims at exploring Public International Law (PIL, or simply IL) through the lens of Political Economy (PE). Although interdisciplinarity seems to have become a must in most areas of academic research and so in the sphere of law, The Political Economy of International Law – A European Perspective is the first edited book providing a systematic and coherent review of the interactions between PE and IL. PE considerations have indeed been a late arrival in IL. Such an interdisciplinary approach was only proposed in the 1990s and has gained prominence since 2000, whereas questions of PE have been placed on the scholarly agenda of other legal science branches from time immemorial.