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

摘要

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.