Published at a time when international law was processing the challenges introduced during World War II and the Korean Conflict, and when the United Nations, the World Court and other new international bodies were exerting influence as judicial bodies, Tucker's analysis was a timely guide to a legal field in the midst of unprecedented change.p pTucker is professor emeritus of American foreign policy at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and UC-Berkeley, where he earned a Ph.D. in political science, he is the author of several notable books including emThe Just Warem 1960, emThe Inequality of Nationsem 1977 and, with David C. Hendrickson, emThe Imperial Temptation The New World Order and America's Purposeem 1992.p ppxiii, 448 pp.p