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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... later the foreign minister issued a clarification of government policy . Distinguishing a moratorium from a ban , it said nothing about sup- porting a ban and left open the possibility of resuming exports . The mora- torium , it read ...
... later . As is their wont in Italy , the bureaucrats ignored the legislature . In a note to Bonino 6 weeks later , Jody Williams reported from the meeting of govern- mental experts in Geneva that " the Italian delegation does not feel ...
... later . " It gave her the impetus to turn against the establishment . Diana " was coming into her own and realizing that she could call her own shots , " White feels.45 Diana's eye - catching appeal to the tabloids was not lost on Rae ...
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The Domestic and Bureaucratic Politics of a | 7 |
An Export Moratorium | 18 |
Chapter 3 | 25 |
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