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International Law in International Politics In the field of international politics, realism, either classical realism or neo-realism, has very little room for international law. It dismisses international law as being virtually irrelevant to matters of high politics. In contrast, in the field of international law, legal positivism has paid scant regard to non-legal political considerations that might influence the implementation of international law. Positive lawyers have concentrated on determining a body of legal rules and believe it should be obeyed even if it is not. Thus there is a power-law divide; realists, accepting legal positivists' standing that law is a body of rules, deny the significance of international law on state's behavior and distain international law as an epiphenomenal role in the ordering of international life. This paper attempts to clear up realists' misunderstanding on the nature, functions, and influence of international law in international politics. I argue that 1) realists...

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