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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... issue in human rights terms . The story prompted Clinton to " ask about land- mines policy , " says a White House official . From then on , “ Leahy drove the issue . It was a coming together " of those two influences.81 The story of ...
... issue . " So had his aide , Dave Appleton , " who interacted with these people himself as the issue caught fire . " In the aftermath of Brussels , says Newsom , " We kept trying to explain that this is not an arms control issue . This ...
... issue , mistrust among the agencies , bureaucratic vested inter- ests — but the decisive factor was the inability to engage at political levels on what had become a political issue until it was too late . ” " 23 That was just as much ...
Contents
The Domestic and Bureaucratic Politics of a | 7 |
An Export Moratorium | 18 |
Chapter 3 | 25 |
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