The Ottawa Process Revisited
| Date | 01 September 2003 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070200305800303 |
| Author | Adam Chapnick |
| Published date | 01 September 2003 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
ADAM
CHAPNICK
The
Ottawa
process
revisited
Aggressive
unilateralism
in
the
post-Cold
War
world
"7
believe
that
the
campaign
to
ban
landmines
not
only
pro-
duced
a
significant
victory
in
international
disarmament,
but
also
epitomized
broader
changes
that
have
shaken
the
foundations
of
international
relations.
Driven
by
global
change,
new
forms
of
multilateralism
are
emerging,
with
new
concepts,
new
tools,
new actors,
and
even
new
institutions."
-Lloyd
Axworthy,
1998'
T E
GLOBAL
MOVEMENT
to ban
anti-personnel
(AP)
landmines
has
been described
by
Canadian
academics
Maxwell
Cameron
and
Brian
Tomlin, and
Department
of
Foreign
Affairs
and
International
Trade
(DFAIT)
senior policy
advisor
Robert
Lawson
as
"a
story
of
triumph
against
all
odds."
2
It
was,
writes
Cameron,
"one
of
the
most
significant
Adam
Chapnick
is
a
PhD
candidate
at
the
University
of
Toronto.
The
author
would
like
to
thank
Holly
Reid, Erica
Berman
and
the anonymous
reviewers
for
their
helpful
comments
on
an
earlier
draft
of
this
paper.
i
Lloyd
Axworthy,
"Towards
a
new
multilateralism,"
in
Maxwell
A.
Cameron,
Robert
J.
Lawson
and
Brian
W.
Tomlin, eds,
To
Walk
Without
Fear:
The
Global
Movement
to
Ban
Landmines
(Toronto: Oxford
University
Press
1998),
448.
2
Maxwell
A.
Cameron,
Robert
J.
Lawson
and
Brian
W.
Tomlin,
"To
walk
without
fear,"
in
Cameron
etal.,
15.
INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
Summer
2003
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