Negotiating Minefields: The Landmines Ban in American Politics

by León Sigal, Leon V Sigal, Leon V. Sigal

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415954150
• ISBN13: 9780415954150
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"