Negotiating Minefields: The Landmines Ban in American PoliticsAgainst 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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The campaign adopted the classic outsider strategy of mass movements , using transformative rhetoric - reframing an issue of national security or arms control as one of human security or human rights — in pursuit of a radical goal ...
4 Whatever the campaign's shortcomings , however , without the ICBL to define the problem and the solution , a global treaty to ban landmines never would have been adopted . THE NETWORK IS THE SOLUTION ། དེ་ The ICBL's success calls ...
They , too , became targets of the campaign . Taking on the military - industrial complex is seldom the way to advance a cause in Washington , but it does have resonance in some parts of the country . Yet the ban campaign never did ...
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The Domestic and Bureaucratic Politics of a | 7 |
An Export Moratorium | 18 |
Chapter 3 | 25 |
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| Title | Negotiating Minefields: The Landmines Ban in American Politics Negotiating Minefields: The Landmines Ban in American Politics, Leon V. Sigal |
| Author | Leon V. Sigal |
| Publisher | Routledge, 2006 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 22 Oct 2008 |
| ISBN | 0415954150, 9780415954150 |
| Length | 294 pages |
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