Weapons of Mass Destruction and International Order

INTRODUCTION; 1. Concepts of International Order: the Antidote to Enmity; Enmity's reduction to rivalry, forebearance and amity; The symbiosis of power balancing and constitutionalism; Shifting approaches to hegemonic order; Carl Schmitt's three realms of enmity; 'Politics is created to make real enmity impossible'; 2. Weapons of Mass Destruction and International Order to 1990; The nuclear weapon's arrival and the early struggle for order; The emergent Cold War nuclear order: managed deterrence and abstinence; Legitimacy, progress and universality; The United States' assumption of special responsibility; 3. Post - Cold War WMD Order: two Divergent Paths; Path 1: Towards the cooperative reduction and elimination of all WMD; Path 2: Towards the coercive elimination of others' WMD; 4. The Breakdown of WMD Order; Stage 1: 1998-2001; Stage 2: 2001-2003; 5. The Iraq War and Afterwards; The revealed extent of and limits to US power; North Korea, Iran and Libya and Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Israel; Back to the problem of legitimacy; Legitimacy, integrity and trust; UN Resolution; CONCLUSION: BACK TO GREAT-POWER RELATIONS