Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: Article 1.General Obligations.1.Each State party undertakes never under any circumstances: (a) To use anti-personnel mines . . .." --Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production, and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction (Ottawa Treaty) As the sole remaining superpower in the changed international security environment of the post-Cold War era, the United States is struggling in its efforts to balance humanitarian and security interests.The contentious nature of this struggle is nowhere more prevalent than in the controversial issue of US policy concerning antipersonnel landmines.The emotional and political rhetoric surrounding this weapon over the past several years has been intense.Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, in the preface to the State Department's report Hidden Killers 1998: The Global Landmine Crisis, addresses the nature of this issue:
Author: John F. Troxell
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4245880557