Chemical Weapons Convention and world order -- Problems with the Chemical Weapons Convention -- Origins of the Chemical Weapons Convention -- Russian and other perspectives -- Making a global chemical weapons ban work -- Observations on the long-term future of the Chemical Weapons Convention -- Perspective of the western chemical industry -- At the conclusion of the Chemical Weapons Convention -- Shadow and substance of law -- Future U.S. National Authority -- Illuminating the shadows -- Verifiability and enforceability of the Chemical Weapons Convention -- Would sanctions improve the enforceability of the Chemical Weapons Convention? -- Chemical Weapons Convention and the Shadow of the post-Cold War world -- Arms control in changing times.