"Military Necessity vs. Congressional and Public Pressure" -- Landmines and the Presidential Dilemma

Abstract

In May 1996, President Clinton announced to the UN General Assembly that the United States intended to lead the effort to achieve a worldwide ban on the use of landmines as soon as possible On 17 January 1997, President Clinton again reiterated this position when he announced that the United States would seek to initiate negotiations on a worldwide treaty banning the use, production, stockpiling, and transfer of anti-personnel landmines In sharp contrast, we now jump ahead to 18 September 1997, where President Clinton announced that the United States would not join over 100 nations scheduled to meet in Ottawa in December to sign a treaty to ban landmines. The obvious question is what happened and why.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 04, 1997
Accession Number
ADA441467

Entities

People

  • Rod Johnson

Organizations

  • National War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Anti-Personnel Mines
  • Arms Control
  • Congress
  • Department Of Defense
  • Employment
  • Foreign Relations
  • Governments
  • Land Mines
  • Law
  • National Security
  • Security
  • Treaties
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Weapons

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • International Relations and Conflict Resolution
  • Nuclear Non-Proliferation and International Security
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.