SlaughterBurley , 1993 :206 ) Such an assertion stemmed from the core belief of the realists that international law merely reflected the ``interests of powerful states (Steinberg Zasloff , 2006 : 67 ) which encouraged some scholars of the realist tradition to assert that international law was inconsequential as it was beholden to the powerful and could be bent to suit the interests of powerful nations (Slaughter , 1995 :1 Kocs , 1994 ) Morgenthau (1967 , for instance , illustrated how the issue of intervention into sovereign states , which...











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