{"id":1811,"date":"2009-06-01T09:06:03","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T16:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.journals.law.harvard.edu\/ilj\/site\/?p=1811"},"modified":"2010-09-17T11:42:29","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T15:42:29","slug":"issue_50-2_brewster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/ilj\/2009\/06\/issue_50-2_brewster\/","title":{"rendered":"Unpacking the State\u2019s Reputation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Abstract<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>International law scholars debate when international law matters to  states, how it matters, and whether we can improve compliance. One of  the few areas of agreement is that fairly robust levels of compliance  can be achieved by tapping into states\u2019 concerns with their reputation.  The logic is intuitively appealing: a state that violates  international law develops a bad reputation, which leads other states to  exclude the violator from future cooperative opportunities.  Anticipating a loss of future gains, states will often comply with  international rules that are not in their immediate interests. The level  of compliance that reputation can sustain depends, however, on how the  government decision makers value the possibility of being excluded from  future cooperative agreements. This Article examines how governments  internalize reputational costs to the \u201cstate\u201d and how audiences evaluate  the predictive value of violating governments\u2019 actions. The Article  concludes that international law\u2019s current approach to reputation is  counterproductive, because it treats reputation as an error term that  makes rationalists\u2019 claims invariably correct.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Article examines how governments internalize reputational costs to the \u201cstate\u201d and how audiences evaluate the predictive value of violating governments\u2019 actions. 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