Synopses & Reviews
This book is a comprehensive and authoritative account of the global movement to ban landmines. It brings together leading academics, senior policy makers, and prominent leaders of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to examine and draw lessons from the "Ottawa Process" that culminated in December 1997 when over 120 states signed a convention to ban the use, sale, and production of landmines.
Review
"This intriguing volume seeks to satisfy various audiences....As a case study of NGO-government cooperation, this is an unprecedented book....All levels."--Choice
Synopsis
To Walk Without Fear is a comprehensive and authoritative account of the global movement to ban landmines. It brings together leading academics, senior policy-makers, and prominent leaders of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to examine and draw lessons from the Ottawa Process that culminated in December 1997 when over 120 states signed a Convention to ban the use, sale, and production of landmines.
To Walk Without Fear resulted from an unusual collaboration of universities, governments, and NGOs, which developed in tandem with the negotiation process itself. The book will be both timely and of enduring value to policy-makers interested in drawing lessons from the Ottawa Process, to NGOs interested in replicating its results in other areas, to academic specialists and students interested in foreign policy and international affairs, and to the general public seeking an accessible and readable account of one of the most significant global movements in recent years.
Table of Contents
Preface
Contributors
Abbreviations
1. To Walk Without Fear, Maxwell A. Cameron, Robert J. Lawson, and Brian W. Tomlin
Part One: The Global Movement for a Ban
2. The International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Jody Williams and Stephen Goose
3. The Canadian Campaign, Valerie Warmington and Celina Tuttle
4. The French Campaign, Philippe Chabasse
5. The South African Campaign, Noel Stott
6. The Role of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Stuart Maslen
7. The Role of the Landmine Survivors Network, Jerry White and Ken Rutherford
8. The Crisis of Anti-Personnel Mines, Alex Vines
9. The Military Utility of Anti-Personnel Mines, Robert G. Gard, Jr
Part Two: The International Response
10. The Ottawa Process and the International Movement to Ban Anti-Personnel Mines, Robert J. Lawson, Mark Gwozdecky, Jill Sinclair, and Ralph Lysyshyn
11. On a Fast Track to a Ban: The Canadian Policy Process, Brian W. Tomlin
12. Rhetoric and Policy realities in the United States, Mary Wareham
13. Europe and the Ottawa Process, David Long and Laird Hindle
14. Harnessing Change for Continuity: The Play of Political and Economic Forces Behind the Ottawa Process, J. Marshall Beier and Ann Denholm Crosby
15. The Ban Treaty, Thomas Hajnoczi, Thomas Desch, and Deborah Chatsis
16. The Challenge of Humanitarian Mine Clearance, Don Hubert
Part Three: Legacies of the Ottawa Process
17. Compliance with International Norms and the Mines Taboo, Richard Price
18. (Re)presenting Landmines from Protector to Enemy: The Discursive Framing of New Multilateralism, Miguel de Larrinaga and Claire Turenne Sjolander
19. Negotiating in the ottawa Process, Michael Dolan and Chris Hunt
20. Democratization of Foreign Policy: The Ottawa Process as a Model, Maxwell A. Cameron
21. Towards a New Multilateralism, Lloyd Axworthy
Appendix A List of Signatories to and Ratifications of the Ottawa Convention
Appendix B The Ottawa Convention
Index