Moral entrepreneurs and the campaign to ban landmines / / Frank Faulkner.

• Superior document: At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 35
• Author: Faulkner, Frank, 1951-
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 35.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (271 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This work advances the proposition that traditional ‘top down’ politics is being challenged by grass-roots, civil society based ‘bottom up’ politics in that most sensitive areas, the national security/arms control dichotomy. The book uses the example of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), that has succeeded in reversing or altering the national policies on landmines in over 130 countries globally. The book cites the efforts of what the author calls ‘moral entrepreneurs’, that is people who have adopted the risk-taking characteristics of business and social leaders to bring this state of affairs about. As a new polity that challenges old assumptions about the state’s preserve in matters of national security and moral force, the ICBL has set the benchmark for a fresh, twenty-first century paradigm in arms control.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Frank Faulkner -- Emergence of a New Superpower Polity / Frank Faulkner -- Landmines, Theory, and Security: An International Relations Perspective / Frank Faulkner -- Grass Roots Politics: Regime Theory and Moral Entrepreneurism / Frank Faulkner -- Mine Warfare: Evolution of a Military Force Multiplier / Frank Faulkner -- Victims, Volatility, and Violence: The Moral Rationale for a Complete Ban / Frank Faulkner -- Progress and Passion: The Rise of the ICBL / Frank Faulkner -- Legal Authority and Ethical Platforms: The Ottawa Treaty Comes to Fruition / Frank Faulkner -- Empirical Analyses: Fieldwork Data Gathering and Interpretation / Frank Faulkner -- Concluding Remarks: Progress or Retrogression and Possible Futures / Frank Faulkner -- BIBLIOGRAPHY / Frank Faulkner -- INDEX / Frank Faulkner.