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Past Event
Seminar

Controlling the 'Absolute Weapon': Delegation, Legitimacy, and Authority at the IAEA

Open to the Public

This seminar will argue that the persistent demand for International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) services has resulted in a routinization of international delegation of autonomy and capacity to the IAEA, transforming it from super-power pawn to a multinational forum and now into an agency of global governance—an international nuclear authority.

Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.

Date: Time: - Location: Littauer Building - Belfer Center Library, Room 369
Herman Nackaerts, Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency is interviewed as he arrives after his flight from Iran at Vienna's Schwechat airport, Austria, Feb. 1, 2012.

About

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) failed to accomplish its original mission of serving as a provider of peaceful nuclear energy services but over the past two decades has developed the legitimacy to issue and demand compliance with rules and commands on some nuclear issues, particularly in the area of the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons. This seminar will argue that the persistent demand for IAEA services has resulted in a routinization of international delegation of autonomy and capacity to the IAEA, transforming it from super-power pawn to a multinational forum and now into an agency of global governance—an international nuclear authority.

Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.