RECOMMENDED READINGS
- Bellamy van Aalst, Jill. 2013. “Syria's Real Threat: Biological Weapons.” National Interest, September 19. Available at <http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/syrias-real-threat-biological-weapons-9093>, last accessed May 3, 2014.
- Bentley, Michelle. 2014. Weapons of Mass Destruction and U.S. Foreign Policy: The Strategic Use of a Concept. London: Routledge.
- Bjorkdahl, Annika. 2002. “Norms in International Relations: Some Conceptual and Methodological Reflections.” Cambridge Review of International Affairs 15(1): 9–23.
- Enia, Jason and Jeffrey Fields. 2014. “The Relative Efficacy of the Biological and Chemical Weapon Regimes.” Nonproliferation Review 21(1): 43–64.
- Gentry, John. 2010. “Norms as Weapons of War.” Defense and Security Analysis 26(1): 11–30.
- Hashmi, Sohail and Jon Western. 2013. “A Taboo Worth Protecting: Chemical Weapons are Indiscriminate—And That's Why They Should be Outlawed.” Foreign Affairs, September 9. Available at <http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/139913/sohail-h-hashmi-and-jon-western/a-taboo-worth-protecting>, last accessed May 3, 2014.
- Mueller, John. 2013. “Erase the Red Line: Why We Shouldn't Care About Syria's Chemical Weapons.” Foreign Affairs, April 30. Available at <http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/139351/john-mueller/erase-the-red-line>, last accessed May 3, 2014.
- Nitkitin, Mary, Paul Kerr, and Andrew Feickert. 2013. Syria's Chemical Weapons: Issues for Congress. Congressional Research Service, September 12.
- Price, Richard. 2013. “No Strike, No Problem: The Right Way to Nurture a Norm.” Foreign Affairs, September 5. Available at <http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/139903/richard-price/no-strike-no-problem>, last accessed May 3, 2014.
- Price, Richard. 2013. “How Chemical Weapons Became Taboo: And Why Syria Won't Overturn the Aversion.” Foreign Affairs, January 22. Available at <http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/138771/richard-price/how-chemical-weapons-became-taboo>, last accessed May 3, 2014.
- Price, Richard. 1995. “A Genealogy of the Chemical Weapons Taboo.” International Organization 49(1): 73–103.
- U.S. Government Printing Office. 2012. “When Regimes Fail: The Challenge of Securing Lethal Weapons: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, Second Session, July 19 2012.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.