The Ottawa Convention on Landmines: A Landmark Humanitarian Treaty in Arms Control?

Thakur, Ramesh; Maley, William

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“…The literature on global governance and on ''global civil society'' frequently highlights the case of the ban on antipersonnel landmines as a key example of successful transnational network advocacy (Cameron, Lawson and Tomlin 1998;Price 1998;Thakur and Maley 1999). A global governance-style interpretation of the case of Norway in the global advocacy against antipersonnel landmines may have immediate appeal.…”

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“…Having critically reviewed key propositions within the literature on global governance in section one, and spelled out a set of alternative analytical tools derived from the literature on governmentality in section two, we apply these in two case studies in section three. The international campaign to ban land-mines and the transnational advocacy for ''reproductive health and rights''Fboth of which occurred in the 1990sFare frequently cited as cases in point of how nonstate actors have assumed a more powerful role in global governance (Higher 1996;Hodgson and Watkins 1997;Cameron, Lawson and Tomlin 1998;Price 1998;Singh 1998;Thakur and Maley 1999;Cooper, English and Takur 2002). Hence, they are good cases for our attempt to establish a different theoretical interpretation.…”

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Governance to Governmentality: Analyzing NGOs, States, and Power

2006

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Studies of global governance typically claim that the state has lost power to nonstate actors and that political authority is increasingly institutionalized in spheres not controlled by states. In this article, we challenge the core claims in the literature on global governance. Rather than focusing on the relative power of states and nonstate actors, we focus on the sociopolitical functions and processes of governance in their own right and seek to identify their rationality as practices of political rule. For this task, we use elements of the conception of power developed by Michel Foucault in his studies of “governmentality.” In this perspective, the role of nonstate actors in shaping and carrying out global governance‐functions is not an instance of transfer of power from the state to nonstate actors but rather an expression of a changing logic or rationality of government (defined as a type of power) by which civil society is redefined from a passive object of government to be acted upon into an entity that is both an object and a subject of government. The argument is illustrated by two case studies: the international campaign to ban landmines, and international population policy. The cases show that the self‐association and political will‐formation characteristic of civil society and nonstate actors do not stand in opposition to the political power of the state, but is a most central feature of how power, understood as government, operates in late modern society.

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Governance to Governmentality: Analyzing NGOs, States, and Power

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“…Also see Boyle and Chinkin (2007), pp 41-97. Price (1998); Thakur and Maley (1999); Anderson (2000); Rutherford (2000). 33 Pearson (2006) (2000); Otto (1996Otto ( , 1997; Orford (2006).…”

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Spaces of International Law

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2008

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“…There is also reason to believe that both innovations can have most of their desired effects even without US adherence. 35 The strategies used to achieve both treaties suggest that it is possible, in some fields, to nullify the impact of the United States' separation of powers and history of isolation that gives its legislators the power and desire to block democratic extensions of global governance.…”

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Global Governance: Poorly done and Poorly Understood

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2000

International Affairs

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A set of ethical issues—tensions between democratization and globalization, about some ways in which the global inequalities have increased, and about gross failures of contemporary international cooperation—provide reason to consider our understanding of global governance and the political forces organized to support or transform it. Many scholars agree on the existence of a global polity characterized by the dominance of neo‐liberalism, the growing network of both public and private regimes that extend across the world's largest regions, the system of global intergovernmental organizations, and transnational organizations both carrying out some of the traditional service functions of global public agencies and working to create regimes and new systems of international integration. Scholars who emphasize the historically contingent social construction of human institutions and who focus on the transformative potential of transnational social movements have provided the greatest insight into what can be done to confront the ethical issues raised by contemporary global governance. Almost all analysts agree that the current great powers cannot be relied upon to facilitate progressive change, although that is only one reason why global governance is likely to remain inefficient and incapable of shifting resources from the world's rich to the poor, even though it may continue to play a role in promoting liberal democracy and the empowering of women.

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The Ottawa Convention on Landmines: A Landmark Humanitarian Treaty in Arms Control?

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Governance to Governmentality: Analyzing NGOs, States, and Power

Governance to Governmentality: Analyzing NGOs, States, and Power

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Global Governance: Poorly done and Poorly Understood

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