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tion, one needs not only to be able to read and figure out the extent to which one can accommodate the interest of other states but one needs also to be able to read the personalities of the other participants and understand what levers and methods will be effective in influencing them. In any event, it is clear that if one wants to gather sufficient votes for plenary adoption of legal texts, it is necessary to negotiate an outcome that a large majority of the delegations can support. Negotiating Civil War provides useful background on the development of legal regimes regulating civil wars, both historically and in the three case studies. Lovat makes insightful observations about the roles of various players in the negotiations. His main objective, to develop hypotheses that explain the negotiation of civil war regimes, will be of more interest to international relations theorists than to international law practitioners, particularly lawyers who negotiate multilateral agreements.