Negotiating Minefields : The Landmines Ban in American Politics

ISBN-13: 9780415954143 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 312 str.

Leon V. Sigal; Sigal V. Sigal

Opis

Against all odds, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines helped to enact a global treaty banning antipersonnel mines in 1997. For that signal achievement it was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In "Negotiating Minefields: The Landmines Ban in American Politics," 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 U.S. senator who championed the ban, and of skillful use of the news media.
Yet, despite this monumental effort, the campaign failed to get the United States to sign the treaty. Drawing on extensive internal documents and interviews with U.S. officials and ban campaigners, Sigal tells the inside 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.

Spis treści

An Irresistible Force Meets an Immovable Object.  Beyond the Limits of Arms Control.  A Campaign to Bring in Outsiders.  Beyond Regulation to a Ban.  Canada Takes Charge.  Civilian Deference to Service Interests.  The President Fails to Push the Military.  The Ban Wagon Starts to Roll.  Think Globally, Act Locally.  Campaigners and Officials.

O autorze

Leon V. Sigal is director of the Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project at the Social Science Research Council in New York. He is the author of several books including, Disarming Strangers: Nuclear Diplomacy with North Korea (Princeton, 1998) which was a finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize for the most outstanding book in international relations.