Bøker av Leon V. Sigal

A behind-the-scenes look at the environment for defense policy and budgeting-in Congress, the news media, and the defense industry-reveals that the appearance of stability is deceiving.

Shows how a handful of NGOs with almost no mass base got more than 100 countries to outlaw a weapon that their armies had long used. This is a story of intrigue and misperception, of clashing norms and interests, of contentious bureaucratic and domestic politics.