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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... Interests mattered . But what interests ? It is a tenet of realism , the domi- nant way of thinking about the world in the government and the foreign policy establishment of the United States as well as an important school of thought in ...
... interests narrowly in terms of security or power and assume other values do not count . Armed force , they believe ... interests and power . As interests change or power shifts , the rules of the international order are rewritten ...
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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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