Transforming Nuclear Safeguards Culture: The IAEA, Iraq, and the Future of Non-Proliferation
The role of organizational culture in international efforts to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.

In Transforming Nuclear Safeguards Culture, Trevor Findlay investigates the role that organizational culture may play in preventing the spread of nuclear weapons, examining particularly how it affects the nuclear safeguards system of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the paramount global organization in the non-proliferation field. Findlay seeks to identify how organizational culture may have contributed to the IAEA’s failure to detect Iraq’s attempts to acquire illicit nuclear capabilities in the decade prior to the 1990 Gulf War and how the agency has sought to change safeguards culture since then. In doing so, he addresses an important piece of the nuclear nonproliferation puzzle: how to ensure that a robust international safeguards system, in perpetuity, might keep non-nuclear states from acquiring such weapons.
 
Findlay, as one of the leading scholars on the IAEA, brings a valuable holistic perspective to his analysis of the agency’s culture. Transforming Nuclear Safeguards Culture will inspire debate about the role of organizational culture in a key international organization—a culture that its member states, leadership, and staff have often sought to ignore or downplay.
 
1139966082
Transforming Nuclear Safeguards Culture: The IAEA, Iraq, and the Future of Non-Proliferation
The role of organizational culture in international efforts to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.

In Transforming Nuclear Safeguards Culture, Trevor Findlay investigates the role that organizational culture may play in preventing the spread of nuclear weapons, examining particularly how it affects the nuclear safeguards system of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the paramount global organization in the non-proliferation field. Findlay seeks to identify how organizational culture may have contributed to the IAEA’s failure to detect Iraq’s attempts to acquire illicit nuclear capabilities in the decade prior to the 1990 Gulf War and how the agency has sought to change safeguards culture since then. In doing so, he addresses an important piece of the nuclear nonproliferation puzzle: how to ensure that a robust international safeguards system, in perpetuity, might keep non-nuclear states from acquiring such weapons.
 
Findlay, as one of the leading scholars on the IAEA, brings a valuable holistic perspective to his analysis of the agency’s culture. Transforming Nuclear Safeguards Culture will inspire debate about the role of organizational culture in a key international organization—a culture that its member states, leadership, and staff have often sought to ignore or downplay.
 
28.99 In Stock
Transforming Nuclear Safeguards Culture: The IAEA, Iraq, and the Future of Non-Proliferation

Transforming Nuclear Safeguards Culture: The IAEA, Iraq, and the Future of Non-Proliferation

by Trevor Findlay
Transforming Nuclear Safeguards Culture: The IAEA, Iraq, and the Future of Non-Proliferation

Transforming Nuclear Safeguards Culture: The IAEA, Iraq, and the Future of Non-Proliferation

by Trevor Findlay

eBook

$28.99 

Available on Compatible NOOK devices, the free NOOK App and in My Digital Library.
WANT A NOOK?  Explore Now

Related collections and offers


Overview

The role of organizational culture in international efforts to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.

In Transforming Nuclear Safeguards Culture, Trevor Findlay investigates the role that organizational culture may play in preventing the spread of nuclear weapons, examining particularly how it affects the nuclear safeguards system of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the paramount global organization in the non-proliferation field. Findlay seeks to identify how organizational culture may have contributed to the IAEA’s failure to detect Iraq’s attempts to acquire illicit nuclear capabilities in the decade prior to the 1990 Gulf War and how the agency has sought to change safeguards culture since then. In doing so, he addresses an important piece of the nuclear nonproliferation puzzle: how to ensure that a robust international safeguards system, in perpetuity, might keep non-nuclear states from acquiring such weapons.
 
Findlay, as one of the leading scholars on the IAEA, brings a valuable holistic perspective to his analysis of the agency’s culture. Transforming Nuclear Safeguards Culture will inspire debate about the role of organizational culture in a key international organization—a culture that its member states, leadership, and staff have often sought to ignore or downplay.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780262369763
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 06/21/2022
Series: Belfer Center Studies in International Security
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 384
File size: 726 KB

About the Author

Trevor Findlay is a Principal Fellow at the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of Nuclear Energy and Global Governance: Ensuring Safety, Security and Nonproliferation, Unleashing the Nuclear Watchdog: Strengthening and Reform of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and several other books and publications.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations vii

List of Abbreviations ix

Preface xiii

Introduction 1

1 IAEA Nuclear Safeguards and Iraq's Nuclear Program 9

2 Missing Iraq: Political and Organizational Explanations 35

3 The Explanatory Power of Culture 71

4 Culture Shock: The Impact of Iraq on Safeguards Culture 127

5 Contemporary Safeguards Culture 171

6 Conclusions and Recommendations 231

Notes 237

Bibliography 313

About the Author 343

Index 345

About the Belfer Center Studies in International Security 361

About the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs 366

From the B&N Reads Blog

Customer Reviews