Margarita Petrova
Assistant Professor
Master's in International Security Coordinator
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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.
Background and education
- (2007) PhD in Government, Cornell University (USA)
- (2003) MA in Government, Cornell University (USA)
- (1998) MA in International Economic Relations, University of National and World Economy (Sofia, Bulgaria)
Awards
2008. Helen Dwight Reid Award for the best doctoral dissertation in international relations, law and politics, American Political Science Association.
2007-2009. Marie Curie Intra-European fellowship.
2006-2007. Max Weber postdoctoral fellowship.
2005-2006. Research Fellowship, The German Marshall Fund of the United States.
Professional memberships & affiliations
- American Political Science Association
- International Studies Association
- European International Studies Association
Courses
Research
Research interests
- International Humanitarian Law
- NGO advocacy
- International Relations
- International Security
- Arms control
- International norms
IBEI Research Clusters
Research projects
Selected publications
- 2019.NGOs and Peace.In:
Thomas Davies (Ed)
.Routledge Handbook of NGOs and International Relations.London:Routledge,pp: 315-38.Link
- 2018.Weapons prohibitions through immanent critique: NGOs as emancipatory and (de)securitising actors in security governance.Review of International Studies,44(4):619-653Link
- 2016.Rhetorical Entrapment and Normative Enticement: How the UK Turned from Spoiler into Champion of the Cluster Munition Ban.International Studies Quarterly,60(3):387-399Link
- 2014.Proportionality and Restraint on the Use of Force: The Role of Nongovernmental Organizations.In: Matthew Evangelista and Henry Shue (eds).The American Way of Bombing: Changing Ethical and Legal Norms, from Flying Fortresses to Drones.Cornell University Press,pp: 175—190.
- 2014.Small States in Humanitarian Norm Making.In: Louis W. Pauly and Bruce W. Jentleson (eds).Power in a Complex Global System.Routledge,pp: 194—208.
- 2010.Banning Obsolete Weapons or Reshaping Perceptions of Military Utility: Discursive Dynamics in Weapons Prohibitions.IBEI Working Papers,2010/31.Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals.
- 2008.Curbing the Use of Indiscriminate Weapons: NGO Advocacy in Militant Democracies.In: Matthew Evangelista, Harald Müller, and Niklas Schörnig (eds).Democracy and Security: Preferences, Norms and Policy-Making.London and New York:Routledge,pp: 72—101.
- 2007.Small States and New Norms of Warfare.EUI Working Paper MWP,No. 2007/28. European University Institute