Democracy Building in Georgia: The Case for the Ottawa Convention
| dc.contributor.author | Vigeant, Louise | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2008-08-20T20:03:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2008-08-20T20:03:42Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2001-12 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Georgia would seem to present a particularly difficult case for the universal adoption of the Ottawa Convention. The focus of this paper will be to provide a specific strategy to encourage Georgia’s signing of the Treaty. The key to convincing Georgia to participate in the worldwide movement, is to focus on the Treaty’s utility as a mechanism for democracy-building. The country has shown an intense interest in being recognised as a democracy. Reinterpreting the Treaty as a step towards this goal may provide the needed impetus to have the Georgian government finally sign the document. I will use a proceduralist interpretation of the role of law in a nation to buttress my claim that signing the Ottawa Convention shows not only a commitment to human rights, but also to democracy. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10315/1378 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://www.yorku.ca/yciss/publications/OP70-Vigeant.pdf | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | YCISS | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Occasional Paper | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 70 | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://www.yorku.ca/yciss/ | |
| dc.subject | Special Character of the Treaty to Ban Landmines | en |
| dc.subject | proceduralism | en |
| dc.title | Democracy Building in Georgia: The Case for the Ottawa Convention | en |
| dc.type | Research Paper | en |