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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... alternatives , however , the joint chiefs deferred to the Army and the Army in turn deferred to the combat engineers , whose idea of an alternative was another variant of a landmine . Abandoning landmines altogether would require the ...
... alternative to the Ottawa process . " " 24 The Deputies Committee revisited the issue on November 18. As the NSC staff reviewed the state of play 3 days before , " OSD , JCS and ACDA want the CD . State wants an alternative . " There is ...
... alternative : " To reopen this issue now would be a terrible mistake . It would break faith with the JCS , who reluctantly agreed to give up all APL in favor of mixed packages . It would put us on a path to spend billions of dollars on ...
Contents
The Domestic and Bureaucratic Politics of a | 7 |
An Export Moratorium | 18 |
Chapter 3 | 25 |
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