Margarita Petrova
Assistant Professor
Political Science
Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI)
Spain
Biography
Margarita Petrova is an assistant professor at IBEI where she teaches courses in International Relations and International Peace and Security. She holds a PhD degree in Government from Cornell University and her doctoral thesis, "Leadership Competition and the Creation of Norms: A Cross-National Study of Weapons Restrictions," received the 2008 Helen Dwight Reid award for best dissertation in international relations, law and politics from the American Political Science Association. Margarita's main interests are in the area of international norm development, ethical and legal issues in international relations, security studies and arms control, and transnational activism and NGO advocacy. Prior to joining IBEI, she has been a Marie Curie research fellow and a Max Weber postdoctoral fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. In the fall of 2012, Margarita was a visiting fellow at the Centre on Conflict, Development, and Peacebuilding, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.
Research Interest
International Humanitarian Law, NGO advocacy, International Relations, International Security, Arms control and International norms
Publications
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Banning Obsolete Weapons or Reshaping Perceptions of Military Utility: Discursive Dynamics in Weapons ProhibitionsPetrova, Margarita20102010/31
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Petrova, Margarita2014.Proportionality and Restraint on the Use of Force: The Role of Nongovernmental OrganizationsIn: Matthew Evangelista and Henry Shue (eds)The American Way of Bombing: Changing Ethical and Legal Norms, from Flying Fortresses to Drones(pp. 175—190).Cornell University Press
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Petrova, Margarita2014.Small States in Humanitarian Norm MakingIn: Louis W. Pauly and Bruce W. Jentleson (eds)Power in a Complex Global System(pp. 194—208).Routledge
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Petrova, Margarita.2016Rhetorical Entrapment and Normative Enticement: How the UK Turned from Spoiler into Champion of the Cluster Munition BanInternational Studies Quarterly,60(3):387-399
