Abstract
There is a lack of academic research on international law with interdisciplinary methodological tools, particularly on international legal compliance from the theories of international relations. In view of this, we sought to analyze the phenomenon of the international legal compliance, according to the central arguments of the realist paradigm of international relations. It was observed that for realism the international legal compliance depends on the level of coercion of its mechanisms determined by the relations of power and the asymmetries of international relations.
Keywords:
International Legal Compliance; International Relations Theories; Realism