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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... allies on stuff that was really very sophisticated . " 61 The armed services did not want to concede the right to transfer landmines to US allies . Anticipating passage by solid majorities , the administration moved to head off the ...
... allies at the CCW review conference . " The ICBL consciously tried to develop a group of like - minded governments with whom they could build some kind of trust , " says Goose . " That grew out of campaign meetings during the September ...
... allies will be protected . " 91 It was a transparent attempt to drape PDD - 48 in military authority . The other difference is that , while both documents affirm , " The United States will aggressively pursue an international agreement ...
Contents
The Domestic and Bureaucratic Politics of a | 7 |
An Export Moratorium | 18 |
Chapter 3 | 25 |
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