.,. furnishes considerable insight into the increasingly salient role of adjudication in international affairs. For doing so, it merits high commendation. Bodie's short but thoughtful study succeeds in clarifying the need for international political stability and legal order, and, in particular, the World Court's contribution to these ambitions. Scholars, students, and practitioners of international law and organization will, therefore, welcome this volume with particular interest. International regime theorists will also find it intellectually stimulating. -Mershon International Studies Review