Editors Footer, Schmidt, White, and Davies-Bright present readers with a collection of contributions focused on the human, political, military, socio-economic, environmental, and energy security impacts of international law in a variety of international contexts. The editors have organized the fourteen selections that make up the main body of the text in two parts devoted to conceptions of security and international law and security threats and international law. Mary E. Footer, Julia Schmidt, Nigel D. White, and Lydia Davies-Bright are all faculty members of the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ?016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)