Weapons of Mass Destruction and International Order

William Walker (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

120 Seiten

2005
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-856841-4 (ISBN)

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This Adelphi Paper argues that, instead of an imperious strategy focusing on counter-proliferation and the treat of preventive war, the recovery of order must entail the pursuit of international legitimacy as well as efficacy and it will require all states to accept restraint and to honour their mutual obligations.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	8.3.2005
Reihe/Serie	Adelphi series
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	158 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-19-856841-X / 019856841X
ISBN-13	978-0-19-856841-4 / 9780198568414
Zustand	Neuware