When the Room Broke Apart

When the Room Broke Apart is not a lament for international institutions. It is a forensic examination of why they fail the specific, structural, and predictable ways they were always going to fail. Through field reporting, archival documents, and interviews with the diplomats, lawyers, survivors, and investigators who built and watched these agreements break, it traces the birth, spread, and collapse of three of the most ambitious norms in the history of international order: the Responsibility to Protect, the prohibition on chemical weapons, and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.