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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... strategy session , more and more countries decided to participate . What to do for an encore became the issue for the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade . Jill Sinclair , director of the nonproliferation , arms ...
... strategy played particularly well in political settings where distrust of the United States was endemic and where US opposition to the ban might be a reason to support it . The strategy had an unintended consequence : it exposed a rift ...
... strategy more successful than in southern Africa . Unique circumstances made that outcome possible . Thirty years of strife had left it the most mine - afflicted region in the world ; since 1961 , when the first known landmine casualty ...
Contents
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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