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Weapons of mass destruction and international order
- Title
- Weapons of mass destruction and international order / William Walker.
- Author
- Walker, William B.
- Publication
- Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- International Institute for Strategic Studies.
- Description
- 90 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- How should the 'problem of order' associated with weapons of mass destruction be understood and addressed today? Have the problem and its solution been misconceived and misrepresented, as manifested by the problematic aftermath of Iraq War? Has 9/11 rendered redundant past international ordering strategies, or are these still discarded at our own peril? These are the questions explored in this Adelphi Paper. It opens by focusing attention on the linked problems of enmity, power and legitimacy, which lie at the root of the contemporary problem of order. The paper shows how the 'WMD order' that was constructed during and after the Cold War was challenged from various directions in the late 1990s and early 2000s. It shows how the growing disorder was a cause and effect of a potent 'double enmity' that arose in the US against both 'rogue states' and the international constitutionalism that had been espoused by previous US governments and bound states to a common purpose. An ordering strategy that is imperious and places its main emphasis on counter-proliferation and the threat of preventive war cannot be successful.The recovery of order must entail the pursuit of internaitonal legitimacy as well as efficacy. It will require all states to accept restraint and to honour their mutual obligations.
- Series Statement
- Adelphi paper ; 370
- Uniform Title
- Adelphi papers ; 370.
- Alternative Title
- WMD and international order
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references ( p. [83]-90).
- Contents
- Concepts of international order: the antidote to enmity -- Weapons of mass destruction and international order to 1990 -- Post-Cold War WMD order: two divergent paths -- The breakdown of WMD order -- The Iraq War and afterwards.
- Call Number
- JFE 05-1981
- ISBN
- 019856841X
- OCLC
- 57403540
- Author
- Walker, William B.
- Title
- Weapons of mass destruction and international order / William Walker.
- Imprint
- Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Series
- Adelphi paper ; 370Adelphi papers ; 370.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references ( p. [83]-90).
- Added Author
- International Institute for Strategic Studies.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 05-1981