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Civil war has been a fact of political life throughout recorded history. However, unlike inter-state wars, international law has not traditionally regulated such conflicts. How then can we explain the post-1945 emergence and evolution of international treaty rules regulating the conduct of internal armed conflict: the 'Civil War Regime'? Negotiating Civil War combines insights derived from Realist, Rationalist, Liberal, and Constructivist approaches to International Relations to answer this question, revisiting the negotiation of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, the 1977 Additional Protocols, and the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. This study provides a rigorous, critical account of the making of the Civil War Regime. Sophisticated and persuasive, it illustrates the complex interplay of material, ideational, social, and strategic factors in shaping these rules with important lessons for the making and unmaking of international law in a rapidly shifting international political, economic, and security environment.

"The international legal rules regulating civil war present an abiding conundrum: why have states collectively designed standards regulating the conduct of armed conflict within their borders, when such rules are likely to primarily benefit non-governmental armed forces? To explain the shape of this "civil war regime", Negotiating Civil War adopts a pluralist theoretical approach, adapting insights from a number of International Relations ("IR") research traditions to build a theoretical lens for the empirical analysis that follows in Chapters Three, Four and Five"--