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SUMMARY:Bounding War: the Institutional Logic of Prohibitions on Militariz
 ed Bargaining - Dr Anatoly Levshin\, Harvard University
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CONTACT:Dr Ayse Zarakol
DESCRIPTION:It is a familiar observation that the possibility of war perme
 ates relations among states under anarchy. It is less well appreciated tha
 t states deliberately and routinely regulate that possibility by delineati
 ng prohibitions on the use of militarized bargaining. Three ambitious exam
 ples of such prohibition – the rule of non-aggression embedded in the Co
 venant of the League of Nations (1920)\, Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)\, and 
 Charter of the United Nations (1945) – have attracted enormous attention
  from political scientists and historians alike. Few scholars appreciate t
 hat these three instruments are\, however\, only the most well-known cases
  inhabiting a much broader universe. Indeed\, across the past two centurie
 s alone\, various groups of three or more states concluded over 97 legal i
 nstruments containing 120 distinct provisions variously circumscribing the
  right and ability of different states to engage in militarized bargaining
 . Despite their ubiquity in modern international relations\, states’ use
  of such prohibitions is documented only incompletely and rather imperfect
 ly understood. Why do states enact them? What explains variation in their 
 design? And what does the practice of such prohibitions tell us about the 
 ability of states\, especially the great powers\, to cooperatively limit t
 he use of military force in the international system? In this talk\, Anato
 ly Levshin will articulate a new institutionalist theory that resolves the
 se questions. He will provide guidance on the use of prohibitions on milit
 arized bargaining as policy instruments and\, drawing on extensive archiva
 l research\, develop new narratives of the origins of some of the most fam
 iliar prohibitions\, including the rule of non-aggression articulated in A
 rticle 10 of the Covenant of the League of Nations.
LOCATION:Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road (Sidgwick Site)\, Room S2
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