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Book SynopsisA comprehensive and authoritative account of the global movement to ban landmines. This text examines and draws 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.
Table of ContentsPreface. Contributors. Abbreviations. 1: Maxwell A. Cameron, Robert J. Lawson, and Brian W. Tomlin: To Walk Without Fear. Part One: The Global Movement for a Ban. 2: Jody Williams and Stephen Goose: The International Campaign to Ban Landmines. 3: Valerie Warmington and Celina Tuttle: The Canadian Campaign. 4: Philippe Chabasse: The French Campaign. 5: Noel Stott: The South African Campaign. 6: Stuart Maslen: The Role of the International Committee of the Red Cross. 7: Jerry White and Ken Rutherford: The Role of the Landmine Survivors Network. 8: Alex Vines: The Crisis of Anti-Personnel Mines. 9: Robert G. Gard, Jr: The Military Utility of Anti-Personnel Mines. Part Two: The International Response. 10: Robert J. Lawson, Mark Gwozdecky, Jill Sinclair, and Ralph Lysyshyn: The Ottawa Process and the International Movement to Ban Anti-Personnel Mines. 11: Brian W. Tomlin: On a Fast Track to a Ban: The Canadian Policy Process. 12: Mary Wareham: Rhetoric and Policy Realities in the United States. 13: David Long and Laird Hindle: Europe and the Ottawa Process. 14: J. Marshall Beier and Ann Denholm Crosby: Harnessing Change for Continuity: The Play of Political and Economic Forces Behind the Ottawa Process. 15: Thomas Hajnoczi, Thomas Desch, and Deborah Chatsis: The Ban Treaty. 16: Don Hubert: The Challenge of Humanitarian Mine Clearance. Part Three: Legacies of the Ottawa Process. 17: Richard Price: Compliance with International Norms and the Mines Taboo. 18: Miguel de Larrinaga and Claire Turenne Sjolander: (Re)presenting Landmines from Protector to Enemy: The Discursive Framing of New Multilateralism. 19: Michael Dolan and Chris Hunt: Negotiating in the Ottawa Process. 20: Maxwell A. Cameron: Democratization of Foreign Policy: The Ottawa Process as a Model. 21: Lloyd Axworthy: Towards a New Multilateralism. Appendix A List of Signatories to and Ratifications of the Ottawa Convention. Appendix B The Ottawa Convention. Index
