The myth about global civil society
Subtitle: domestic politics to ban landmines
By: Daniela Tepe
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780230279148
Subjects: Land mines (International law); Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction; Arms control; Non-state actors (International relations); Non-governmental organizations; International cooperation; International Campaign to Ban Landmines; Influence
Description: Daniela Tepe offers the first systematic analysis of the domestic politics of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and provides a theoretical framework through which to access these. She contributes to understanding the international campaigning activities of NGOs, the debates on globalization as well as the state and (global) civil society in International Relations, which are at the discipline's forefront since neorealism was first challenged in the 1980s. Examining the enforcement of the landmines campaign in Germany and the UK, the author shows that previous research falls short of providing an insight into the historically specific conditions underlying the success of the campaign in liberal democracies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: non-governmental organisations and the Landmines Treaty; title: IR and NGOs : a simplistic story?; title: NGOs and materialist state theory; title: The landmines campaign and the Ottawa Convention : the involvement of NGOs in banning landmines; title: Discourses and interests; title: The state and civil society.