Weapons of Mass Destruction and International Order

First Published in 2005. How should the 'problem of order' associated with weapons of mass destrcution be understood and addressed today? Has 9/11 rendered redundant past international ordering strategies, or these still discarded at our own peril? These are questions explored in this Adelphi Paper.

William Walker

Introduction, Concepts of Internal Order: the Antidote to Enmity, Weapons of Mass Destruction and Internal Order to 1990, Post-Cold War WMD Order: two Divergent Paths, The Breakdown of WMD Order, The Iraq War and Afterwards, Conclusion: BAck to Great-Power Relations.