Negotiating Minefields: The Landmines Ban in American PoliticsRoutledge, 2006 - 294 pages Against all odds, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines helped to enact a global treaty banning antipersonnel mines in 1997. For that achievement it was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In this volume, Leon Sigal shows how a handful of NGOs with almost no mass base got more than 100 countries to outlaw a weapon that their armies had long used. It is a story of intrigue and misperception, of clashing norms and interests, of contentious bureaucratic and domestic politics. It is also a story of effective leadership, of sustained commitment to a cause, of alliances between campaigners and government officials, of a US senator who championed the ban, and of the skilful use of the news media. Despite this monumental effort, the campaign failed to get the United States to sign the treaty. Drawing on extensive internal documents and interviews with US officials and ban campaigners, Sigal tells the story of the in-fighting inside the Clinton administration, in the Pentagon, and within the ban campaign itself that led to this major setback for an otherwise unprecedented, successful global effort. Negotiating Minefields will be of interest to students and scholars of military and strategic studies and politics and international relations. |
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... CCW review conference to reexamine the protocol . The review conference was an American idea , according to Michael Matheson of the Office of Legal Adviser in the Department of State . “ As it became clear that something had to be done ...
... meetings for the CCW review conference posed a dilemma for the International Coalition to Ban Landmines : strengthening the CCW's limitations on landmine use might divert pressure for a ban , but concentrating its efforts entirely on a ...
... review conference , says Goose , " we made a long discussed decision to avoid the daily back - and - forth of what ... CCW strategy and brainstorming about the creative ways that we took over [ the review conference ] and had an impact ...
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An Export Moratorium | 18 |
Chapter 3 | 25 |
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