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SUMMARY:Social Pressure and the Making of the Wartime Civilian Protection 
 Rules - Giovanni Mantilla (Lecturer\, University of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Maja Spanu
DESCRIPTION:"The protection of civilians from the dangers of warfare const
 itutes an imperative in contemporary global politics. Drawing on original 
 multiarchival research\, this article explains the origins\, negotiation\,
  and design of the core civilian protection rules within international hum
 anitarian law in the 1970s. It argues that these crucial international rul
 es resulted from the operation of two central mechanisms: social pressure 
 and a strategic\, facesaving reaction to it -- leadership capture -- in th
 e context of Cold War and decolonization-era international social competit
 ion. Empirically\, I demonstrate the conditional effect of social pressure
  by a materially weaker coalition of Third World and Socialist states upon
  powerful reluctant states: the United States\, the United Kingdom\, and m
 ore surprisingly\, the Soviet Union. Third World and Socialist coalition p
 ressure fostered curious US-USSR backstage collaboration\, eventually shap
 ing the legal compromise embodied in the civilian protection rules of Addi
 tional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions. Theoretically\, this article 
 furthers burgeoning IR work on the connection between social pressure\, st
 atus seeking\, and legalization. Empirically it explains\, through rare pr
 imary evidence\, an intrinsically-important and understudied case in the h
 istory of international law."
LOCATION: Room 138\, Alison Richard Building\, Sidgwick Site\, 7 West Road
 \, Cambridge\, CB3 9DT
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