Within the World Trade Organization (WTO), compulsory adjudication of disputes, with the interstate application of retaliatory measures authorized by the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB), transcends the traditional logic of international legal instruments for inducing compliance. In the literature, there is a lack of academic, theoretical and empirical research on the state's compliance with the decisions of international legal regimes. Specifically, there is little work, based on international relations theories, regarding retaliation as a mechanism for inducing compliance with WTO law, despite be a relevant research topic. Retaliation in international trade disputes, motivated by political decisions and capable of generating economic impacts, can only be fully understood through interdisciplinary methodological tools. In this way, the interdisciplinarity between international relations and international law