The Myth about Global Civil Society [electronic resource] : Domestic Politics to Ban Landmines /
Tepe, D.author.
In order to help the understanding of international campaigning activities of Non-Governmental Organisations, Tepe analyses the domestic politics of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and provides a theoretical framework through which to access these.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Non-Governmental Organisations and the Landmines Treaty; Theoretical localisations of the book; Concrete research and some methodological clarifications; 1 IR and NGOs - A Simplistic Story?; NGOs and global civil society; 2 NGOs and Materialist State Theory; Insights of materialist state theory; What does this (all) mean theoretically for NGOs being part of international campaigns?; Civil society and the state; 3 The Landmines Campaign and the Ottawa Convention - The Involvement of NGOs in Banning Landmines; The mines crisis
Production and proliferation of AP minesThe history of landmines; Negotiating the traditional way; The international campaign to ban landmines; The Ottawa process and the influence of the ICBL; The Ottawa convention; The implementation of the landmines campaign in Germany and the UK; The German campaign; The UK campaign; 4 Discourses and Interests; Changing discourses on landmines; Production of landmines in Germany and the UK - the economic and military importance of landmines; Do interests matter?; 5 The State and Civil Society
Proposition 1: The nation state was the central addressee of NGO agitation in the landmines campaignProposition 2: The way in which the landmines campaign prevailed was dependent on the historically specific form of state in Germany and the UK; Proposition 3: NGOs as part of the landmines campaign were highly heterogeneous actors; Conclusions; The domestic implementation of the international campaign to ban landmines: The findings; Limitations of the IR literature and theoretical location of NGOs; Materialist state theory; Directions for future research; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In order to help the understanding of international campaigning activities of Non-Governmental Organisations, Tepe analyses the domestic politics of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and provides a theoretical framework through which to access these.
International Campaign to Ban Landmines.
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction (1997)
International organization.
Peace.
Politics and war.
International relations.
Globalization.
Political communication.
International Organization.
Conflict Studies.
Military and Defence Studies.
International Relations.
Globalization.
Political Communication.