Negotiating Minefields: The Landmines Ban in American PoliticsRoutledge, 2013 M05 13 - 312 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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... Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects Conference on Disarmament commander-in-chief (of a regional or ...
... Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Antipersonnel Mines and on Their Destruction—the Ottawa Convention for short. That a small group of NGOs could succeed in securing entry into force of a ...
... Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects,” or CCW for short. the unchecked spread of antipersonnel mines A ...
... Conventions of August 12 , 1949 , elaborated limits on the use of force in international armed conflicts and extended them to civil wars . Article 35 outlawed use of “ weapons , projectiles and material and meth- ods of warfare of a ...
... convention, to revise the landmines protocol radically. It turns out the French were of a similar mind, although their initial substantive impulses were rather conser- vative.”6 The two countries collaborated on a UN resolution ...
Contents
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Chapter 4 Beyond Regulation to a Ban | 57 |
Chapter 5 Canada Takes Charge | 89 |
Chapter 6 Civilian Deference to Service Interests | 103 |
Chapter 7 The President Fails to Push the Military | 123 |
Chapter 8 The Ban Wagon Starts to Roll | 155 |
Chapter 9 Think Globally Act Locally | 175 |
Chapter 10 From Oslo Back to Ottawa | 191 |
Chapter 11 Campaigners and Officials | 225 |
Endnotes | 245 |
Index | 279 |
Back cover | 295 |
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