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This volume offers a wide-ranging examination and discussion of the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) past, present and future as it enters its seventh decade. Including contributions from leading experts across the globe, the book assesses the historical record of the IAEA; the issues and challenges it faces at present; and its future prospects. In doing so, it addresses the primary missions of the IAEA outlined in the IAEA's statute, i.e., to safeguard and promote the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, as well as the missions over which it is expanding its mandate, including nuclear safety and security. The volume is divided into two parts: Part I focuses on historical recollections and reflections of participants in key events, ranging from a personal account of the initial negotiations of the IAEA to an account by its chairman on the dynamics of the Board of Governors in recent years. Part II covers current and future issues in the IAEA's role in nuclear safeguards, the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and nuclear safety and security.

"This volume offers a comprehensive history of the International Atomic Energy Authority (IAEA), featuring essays by both academics and policymakers. The IAEA's history spans the Cold War, the post-Cold War era, and the emergence of what some believe is the end of the post-Cold War era. During the chills and thaws of the Cold War, the IAEA's doors were always open to serious East-West security discussions. With the end of the Cold War, a time of new authority for the UN, revelations about Iraq's nuclear-weapons program after the Gulf War threatened the IAEA and its mandate to administer international inspections of peaceful nuclear activities to help ensure that diversions to military programs were not occurring. The extraordinary actions taken to address these challenges affirm the history of vision, statesmanship, international cooperation, institution building, and progress in creating the indispensable agency. It is a story of technical adaptation and political evolution in the face of continuous and continuing challenges-technical, geopolitical, and institutional. It is clear that the challenges to the IAEA will continue, as will the need for the Agency to evolve in the future as it has evolved over the past six decades. This book will be of much interest to students of nuclear proliferation and arms control, global governance and international security in general"--

'The Nuclear Turning Point: A Blueprint for Deep Cuts and De-Alerting of Nuclear Weapons' edited by Harold A. Feiveson is reviewed.

Pilat reviews 'West European Terrorism and Counter-terrorism: The Evolving Dynamic' by Peter Chalk.