The Myth about Global Civil Society Domestic Politics to Ban Landmines

by Tepe, Daniela

• ISBN13: 9780230279148
• ISBN10: 0230279147
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Daniela Tepe is Lecturer in European Studies and German at King's College London, UK. Her research is concerned with the absence of a theorising of the state in International Relations. She has published in several academic journals including Review of International Political Economy and Public Administration.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Non-Governmental Organisations and the Landmines Treaty	p. 1
Theoretical localisations of the book	p. 3
Concrete research and some methodological clarifications	p. 5
IR and NGOs - A Simplistic Story?	p. 11
NGOs and global civil society	p. 14
NGOs and Materialist State Theory	p. 50
Insights of materialist state theory	p. 50
What does this (all) mean theoretically for NGOs being part of international campaigns?	p. 69
Civil society and the state	p. 72
The Landmines Campaign and the Ottawa Convention - The Involvement of NGOs in Banning Landmines	p. 77
The mines crisis	p. 77
Production and proliferation of AP mines	p. 79
The history of landmines	p. 81
Negotiating the traditional way	p. 82
The international campaign to ban landmines	p. 86
The Ottawa process and the influence of the ICBL	p. 89
The Ottawa convention	p. 91
The implementation of the landmines campaign in Germany and the UK	p. 92
The German campaign	p. 98
The UK campaign	p. 102
Discourses and Interests	p. 106
Changing discourses on landmines	p. 106
Production of landmines in Germany and the UK - the economic and military importance of landmines	p. 122
Do interests matter?	p. 133
The State and Civil Society	p. 135
Proposition 1: The nation state was the central addressee of NGO agitation in the landmines campaign	p. 135
Proposition 2: The way in which the landmines campaign prevailed was dependent on the historically specific form of state in Germany and the UK	p. 139
Proposition 3: NGOs as part of the landmines campaign were highly heterogeneous actors	p. 151
Conclusions	p. 154
The domestic implementation of the international campaign to ban landmines: The findings	p. 154
Limitations of the IR literature and theoretical location of NGOs	p. 155
Materialist state theory	p. 158
Directions for future research	p. 160
Notes	p. 163
Bibliography	p. 168
Index	p. 186
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