{"product_id":"lawmaking-under-pressure-giovanni-mantilla-9781501752582","title":"Lawmaking Under Pressure","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLawmaking under Pressure\u003c\/i\u003e, Giovanni Mantilla analyzes the origins and development of the international humanitarian treaty rules that now exist to regulate internal armed conflict. Until well into the twentieth century, states allowed atrocious violence as an acceptable product of internal conflict. Why have states created \u003ci\u003einternational\u003c\/i\u003e laws to control \u003ci\u003einternal\u003c\/i\u003e armed conflict? Why did states compromise their national security by accepting these international humanitarian constraints? Why did they create these rules at improbable moments, as European empires cracked, freedom fighters emerged, and fears of communist rebellion spread? Mantilla explores the global politics and diplomatic dynamics that led to the creation of such laws in 1949 and in the 1970s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the 1949 Diplomatic Conference that revised the Geneva Conventions, most countries supported legislation committing states and rebels to humane principles of wartime behavior and to the avoidance of abhorrent atrocities, including torture and the murder of non-combatants. However, for decades, states had long refused to codify similar regulations concerning violence within their own borders. Diplomatic conferences in Geneva twice channeled humanitarian attitudes alongside Cold War and decolonization politics, even compelling reluctant European empires Britain and France to accept them. \u003ci\u003eLawmaking under Pressure\u003c\/i\u003e documents the tense politics behind the making of humanitarian laws that have become touchstones of the contemporary international normative order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMantilla not only explains the pressures that resulted in constraints on national sovereignty but also uncovers the fascinating international politics of shame, status, and hypocrisy that helped to produce the humanitarian rules now governing internal conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Giovanni Mantilla\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501752588\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501752582\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 7.70w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2021","brand":"Giovanni Mantilla","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44716507234559,"sku":"9781501752582","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a874ebaa-ff48-4b1e-81c4-19240e871475.jpg?v=1705682611","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lawmaking-under-pressure-giovanni-mantilla-9781501752582","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}