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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... Interview with Stephen Goose , May 15 , 2002 . 23. Thomas C. Schelling and Morton H. Halperin , Strategy and Arms Control ( New York : The Twentieth Century Fund , 1961 ) , p . 1 . 24. Report of the ICRC for the CCW Review Conference ...
... Interview with Robert Sherman , August 6 , 2001 . 34. Memorandum from Stephen Goose to Kenneth Anderson , Jody Williams , Tim Rieser , and Tom Cardamone , March 29 , 1994 . 35. Interview with Robert Sherman , August 6 , 2001 . 36 ...
... Interview with Robert Sherman , August 6 , 2001 . 32. Johnson , op . cit . 33. Lawson , op . cit . , p . 18 . 34 ... Stephen Goose , May 15 , 2002 . 48. Ibid . 49. E - mail from Caleb Rossiter to Robert Muller , Jody Williams , Tim Rieser , ...
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Beyond the Limits of Arms Control 60469 | 9 |
A Campaign to Bring in Outsiders | 25 |
Beyond Regulation to a Ban | 57 |
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