Disarming States

Author : Kenneth R. Rutherford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313393976

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Disarming States by Kenneth R. Rutherford Pdf

This book provides a detailed history of the global movement to ban anti-personnel landmines (APL), marking the first case of a successful worldwide civil society movement to end the use of an entire category of weapons. In March 1995, Belgium became the first state to pass a domestic anti-personnel landmine ban. In December 1997, 122 states joined Belgium in signing the comprehensive Mine Ban Treaty, also known as the Ottawa Treaty. The movement to ban landmines became a turning point in global politics that continues to influence policy and strategy decisions regarding weapon use today. Disarming States: The International Movement to Ban Landmines describes how non-government organizations (NGOs) brought the landmine issue to international attention by forming the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL). The author presents new information gleaned from interviews and intensive research conducted around the world. The critical role of mid-size states—such as Austria, Canada, and Switzerland—recruited to back the movement's goals is examined. The book concludes by examining how NGOs affect the international political agenda, especially in seeking legal prohibitions on weapons and changes in states' behaviors.

Author : Ernie Regehr
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781771131650

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Disarming Conflict by Ernie Regehr Pdf

Wars fought over the past quarter century have been a spectacular failure. The overwhelming majority end in military stalemate and are settled at the negotiating table, with the grievances that led to the war still unresolved. In Disarming Conflict famed peace activist Ernie Regehr shows that force cannot simply override or transcend the social, political, and economic realities of conflict. War prevention, Regehr argues, is more successful when security policies address the conditions that most directly affect people’s lives and that are most instrumental in generating deep grievances and the despairing conclusion that there are no alternatives to the violence. Disarming Conflict sets out approaches, initiatives, and policies that steer away from the futility of fighting and promote non-military efforts towards "winning the peace."

Author : Glen Segell
Publisher : Glen Segell Publishers
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Arms control
ISBN : 9781901414264

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Disarming Iraq by Glen Segell Pdf

Author : R. Blake Brown
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781442665606

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Arming and Disarming by R. Blake Brown Pdf

From the École Polytechnique shootings of 1989 to the political controversy surrounding the elimination of the federal long-gun registry, the issue of gun control has been a subject of fierce debate in Canada. But in fact, firearm regulation has been a sharply contested issue in the country since Confederation. Arming and Disarming offers the first comprehensive history of gun control in Canada from the colonial period to the present. In this sweeping, immersive book, R. Blake Brown outlines efforts to regulate the use of guns by young people, punish the misuse of arms, impose licensing regimes, and create firearm registries. Brown also challenges many popular assumptions about Canadian history, suggesting that gun ownership was far from universal during much of the colonial period, and that many nineteenth century lawyers – including John A. Macdonald – believed in a limited right to bear arms. Arming and Disarming provides a careful exploration of how social, economic, cultural, legal, and constitutional concerns shaped gun legislation and its implementation, as well as how these factors defined Canada’s historical and contemporary ‘gun culture.’

Author : Leon V. Sigal
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691010069

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Disarming Strangers by Leon V. Sigal Pdf

In June 1994, the USA went to the brink of war with North Korea. Few Americans know the full details or realise the impact such an event could have had on the US's post-Cold War foreign policy. This book offers an inside look at the crisis.

Author : Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Publisher : City Lights Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780872867246

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Loaded by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Pdf

A provocative, timely, and deeply-researched history of gun culture and how it reflects race and power in the United States

Author : Michael G. Murdock
Publisher : Cornell East Asia Series
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015069191834

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Disarming the Allies of Imperialism by Michael G. Murdock Pdf

This study provides a striking new explanation of how China's Nationalist Party (GMD) defeated its rivals in the revolution of 1922-1929 and helped bring some degree of unification to a country torn by class, regional, and ideological interests. Disarming the Allies of Imperialism argues that inconsistency--more than culture, ideology, or any other factor--gave nationalism its unique edge. Revolutionary leaders manipulated revolutionaries and non-revolutionaries alike to advantage their own positions and seize national power, sometimes seeking to protect foreign lives and property and shield Chinese merchants from agitative disruptions, sometimes voting to do the opposite. Exploiting the symbiotic yet contradictory relationship between state-building, which sought foreign ties and international recognition; and low-level agitators committed to confrontational anti-imperialist objectives, top Guomindang leaders were able to manipulate political circumstances to their own benefit. For example, party leaders stirred up anti-Christian sentiment, pitting popular forces against mission schools, while simultaneously intervening to rescue these same schools from agitative destruction, thus "helping" missionaries to soften their attitudes toward the revolution and eventually embrace the new order. Scholars of modern Chinese history and anyone familiar with the growing literature on nationalism will appreciate this work for its elucidation of a complex historical snarl, while undergraduates and scholars outside the China field will find this a useful and accessible study as well.

Author : Leon V. Sigal
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400822355

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Disarming Strangers by Leon V. Sigal Pdf

In June 1994 the United States went to the brink of war with North Korea. With economic sanctions impending, President Bill Clinton approved the dispatch of substantial reinforcements to Korea, and plans were prepared for attacking the North's nuclear weapons complex. The turning point came in an extraordinary private diplomatic initiative by former President Jimmy Carter and others to reverse the dangerous American course and open the way to a diplomatic settlement of the nuclear crisis. Few Americans know the full details behind this story or perhaps realize the devastating impact it could have had on the nation's post-Cold War foreign policy. In this lively and authoritative book, Leon Sigal offers an inside look at how the Korean nuclear crisis originated, escalated, and was ultimately defused. He begins by exploring a web of intelligence failures by the United States and intransigence within South Korea and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Sigal pays particular attention to an American mindset that prefers coercion to cooperation in dealing with aggressive nations. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with policymakers from the countries involved, he discloses the details of the buildup to confrontation, American refusal to engage in diplomatic give-and-take, the Carter mission, and the diplomatic deal of October 1994. In the post-Cold War era, the United States is less willing and able than before to expend unlimited resources abroad; as a result it will need to act less unilaterally and more in concert with other nations. What will become of an American foreign policy that prefers coercion when conciliation is more likely to serve its national interests? Using the events that nearly led the United States into a second Korean War, Sigal explores the need for policy change when it comes to addressing the challenge of nuclear proliferation and avoiding conflict with nations like Russia, Iran, and Iraq. What the Cuban missile crisis was to fifty years of superpower conflict, the North Korean nuclear crisis is to the coming era.

Author : Hans Blix
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780375423239

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Disarming Iraq by Hans Blix Pdf

The war against Iraq divided opinion throughout the world and generated a maelstrom of spin and counterspin. The man at the eye of the storm, and arguably the only key player to emerge from it with his integrity intact, was Hans Blix, head of the UN weapons inspection team. This is Dr. Blix’s account of what really happened during the months leading up to the declaration of war in March 2003. In riveting descriptions of his meetings with Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and Kofi Annan, he conveys the frustrations, the tensions, the pressure and the drama as the clock ticked toward the fateful hour. In the process, he asks the vital questions about the war: Was it inevitable? Why couldn’t the U.S. and UK get the backing of the other member states of the UN Security Council? Did Iraq have weapons of mass destruction? What does the situation in Iraq teach us about the propriety and efficacy of policies of preemptive attack and unilateral action? Free of the agendas of politicians and ideologues, Blix is the plainspoken, measured voice of reason in the cacophony of debate about Iraq. His assessment of what happened is invaluable in trying to understand both what brought us to the present state of affairs and what we can learn as we try to move toward peace and security in the world after Iraq.

Author : Robin E. Möser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009307055

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Disarming Apartheid by Robin E. Möser Pdf

South Africa remains the only state that developed a nuclear weapons capability, but ultimately decided to dismantle existing weapons and abandon the programme. Disarming Apartheid reconstructs the South African decision-making and diplomatic negotiations over the country's nuclear weapons programme and its international status, drawing on new and extensive archival material and interviews. This deeply researched study brings to light a unique disarmament experience. It traces the country's previously neglected path towards accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Rather than relying primarily on US government archives, the book joins the burgeoning field of national nuclear histories based on unprecedented access to policymakers and documents in the country studied. Robin E. Möser, in addition to providing access to important new documents, offers original interpretations that enrich the study of nuclear politics for historians and political scientists.

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : United States
ISBN : HARVARD:32044115975302

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Foreign Relations of the United States by United States. Department of State Pdf

Author : Eric Barger,David Benoit
Publisher : Aneko Press
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781622454679

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Disarming the Powers of Darkness (eBook Sampler) by Eric Barger,David Benoit Pdf

Scripture is clear: the spiritual battlefield is real and the Enemy is determined. But most Christians are ill-equipped and unprepared when attacked, and even fewer are on the offensive. Still others write off spiritual warfare as irrelevant today, while on the other extreme some credit Satan for every imaginable problem in life. The purpose of this book is to provide biblical balance and clarity in order to establish a proper battle plan – exposing the Enemy for who he really is and showing Christians how to win this war with the spiritual weapons already at their disposal.

Author : Stephen P. Halbrook
Publisher : Independent Institute
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781598131635

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Gun Control in the Third Reich by Stephen P. Halbrook Pdf

Based on newly-discovered, secret documents from German archives, diaries and newspapers of the time, Gun Control in the Third Reich presents the definitive, yet hidden history of how the Nazi regime made use of gun control to disarm and repress its enemies and consolidate power. The countless books on the Third Reich and the Holocaust fail even to mention the laws restricting firearms ownership, which rendered political opponents and Jews defenseless. A skeptic could surmise that a better-armed populace might have made no difference, but the National Socialist regime certainly did not think so—it ruthlessly suppressed firearm ownership by disfavored groups. Gun Control in the Third Reich spans the two decades from the birth of the Weimar Republic in 1918 through Kristallnacht in 1938. The book then presents a panorama of pertinent events during World War II regarding the effects of the disarming policies. And even though in the occupied countries the Nazis decreed the death penalty for possession of a firearm, there developed instances of heroic armed resistance by Jews, particularly the Warsaw ghetto uprising.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : HARVARD:32044106492028

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Parliamentary Papers by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Pdf

Author : Lorna S. Jaffe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000690613

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The Decision to Disarm Germany by Lorna S. Jaffe Pdf

Originally published in 1985 The Decision to Disarm Germany offers a fresh approach to Britain’s First World War and Paris Peace Conference policy on the question of German military disarmament. It offers interpretations based on extensive research into unpublished records and private papers and provides important new conclusions about British policy. The book shows the interaction of domestic concerns and strategic considerations in the wartime development of British thinking on the issue of post-war German disarmament and in the post-Armistice formulation and implementation of Britain’s German disarmament policy. It establishes the crucial interrelationship in British thinking and policy between German disarmament and general disarmament. It also shows the interwar consequences of wartime attitudes and peace conference policy.