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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... decisions within our deci- sion cycle . We cannot make decisions within their decision cycle . " That is not all . " As I move paper upstream to get to the secretary , " he says , " I have to coordinate with the joint staff . I can't ...
... decision memorandum to the president . General Shalikashvili , with the support of Perry and the concurrence of the DOS , ACDA , and UN Ambassador Albright , recommended that he " commit to a complete ban by a date certain in 2010 ...
... decision more quickly . It dragged on too long , " says NSC staffer Nancy Soderberg . " Had we taken the initiative ... decisions , lack of understanding of the nature of the issue , mistrust among the agencies , bureaucratic vested ...
Contents
The Domestic and Bureaucratic Politics of a | 7 |
An Export Moratorium | 18 |
Chapter 3 | 25 |
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