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| Preface | |
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| The Power of International Organizations | |
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| IOs and Information Transmission | |
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| Statecraft and 10s | |
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| The United Nations and the Legitimation of Force | |
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| Case Selection and Outline | |
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| Coercion, Institutions, and Information | |
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| The Politics and Costs of Coercion | |
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| Institutions and Information | |
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| Coercion through IOs | |
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| Two Pathways of Information Transmission | |
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| Institutional Variation and the Security Council | |
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| Alternative Arguments | |
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| Observable Implications and Research Design | |
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| The Security Council in the Gulf War, 1990-1991 | |
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| Background and Events | |
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| Choosing (How) to Intervene | |
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| Signaling Intentions to State Leaders | |
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| Transmitting Policy information to Foreign Publics | |
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| Assessing the Role of Legitimacy | |
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| Coercive Disarmament: The Interwar Years | |
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| Channeling Power between the Wars | |
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| The Postwar Honeymoon | |
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| Cracks in the Coalition | |
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| The Decline of UN inspections | |
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| Desert Fox and Its Aftermath | |
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| The Evolution of U.S. Coercive Strategy | |
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| Reviving Inspections: A Divided Council | |
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| The Second Iraq War: Down the UN Path, 2002-2003 | |
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| From September 11 to Iraq | |
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| Appealing to the General Assembly | |
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| Back to the Council: Resolution 1441 | |
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| Renewed Inspections | |
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| A Second Resolution? | |
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| Explaining U.S. Motivations | |
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| The Second Iraq War: Bypassing the Security Council | |
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| Was it a "Unilateral" Policy? | |
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| The Costs of Working through the UN | |
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| Sensitivity to IO Constraints | |
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| Regional Options: Constrained Forum Shopping | |
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| International Reactions to Iraq 2003 | |
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| The International Political Costs of the War | |
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| Conclusion: How the Security Council Matters | |
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| Multilateralism in U.S. Foreign Policy | |
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| Beyond the Superpower | |
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| The Security Council as a Political Institution | |
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| Appendix: Selected Security Council Resolutions | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |