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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... Draft Attracts Standing 164 Deviations from the Norm 166 Validating the Text 169 Barreling out of Brussels 171 Chapter 9 Think Globally , Act Locally 175 Striking Paydirt in Southern Africa 177 Survivors Speak for Themselves 181 ...
... drafts and suggest improvements. Thanks, too, to my son, Jake, who understood the power of landmines to blow things up. Leon V. Sigal New York City List of Acronyms Arms Control and Disarmament Agency area denial x • Negotiating Minefields.
... draft a joint call for a global ban on antipersonnel landmines. Constituting themselves as the steer- ing committee of the ban campaign, they appointed Jody Williams to be its coordinator. They also decided to convene the first-ever NGO ...
... draft. The campaign's ability to circumvent the diplomatic barriers to entry was an important feature of its success. The campaign exploited new information technologies to link its far- flung members. It could quickly disseminate ...
... behest, he circulated a draft resolution in the General Assembly calling on all states “to agree to a moratorium on the export of antipersonnel mines . ” According to Inderfurth , “ From the Beyond the Limits of Arms Control • 21.
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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