Excerpts from Points of Choice: International Crises and the Role of Law

Chapter 1 (PDF)
What are a Statesman's Goals?
"If law - a system of substantive and procedural norms - is to play a significant role in the decisions that a government official makes with respect to international affairs, it will have to be functional for him, in the sense that it will have to help him cope with his daily problems..."

Chapter 2 (PDF)
Law and the Goal of Peace
"The rhetorical stance of this chapter, and of the others that follow, is that of proposing what would be wise advice to give an official who is concerned with the game of international politics..."

Both chapters (PDF)