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UNINA9910452606603321 |
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Fuhrmann Matthew <1980-> |
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Atomic assistance [[electronic resource] ] : how "atoms for peace" programs cause nuclear insecurity / / Matthew Fuhrmann |
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Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2012 |
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0-8014-6531-1 |
1-322-50357-5 |
0-8014-6575-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (340 p.) |
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Collana |
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Cornell studies in security affairs |
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Nuclear nonproliferation - International cooperation |
Nuclear industry - International cooperation |
Technology transfer - International cooperation |
Technical assistance - International cooperation |
Security, International |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Unintended Consequences in International Politics -- 1. Definitions and Patterns of Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation -- Part I. Atoms for Peace -- 2. Economic Statecraft and Atoms for Peace: A Theory of Peaceful Nuclear Assistance -- 3. The Historical Record: A First Cut -- 4. Nuclear Arms and Influence: Assisting India, Iran, and Libya -- 5. The Thirst for Oil and Other Motives: Nine Puzzling Cases of Assistance -- 6. Oil for Peaceful Nuclear Assistance? -- Part II. Atoms for War -- 7. Spreading Temptation: Why Nuclear Export Strategies Backfire -- 8. Who Builds Bombs? How Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation Facilitates the Spread of Nuclear Weapons -- 9. Have International Institutions Made the World Safer? -- Conclusion: What Peaceful Nuclear Assistance Teaches Us about International Relations -- Notes -- Index |
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Nuclear technology is dual use in nature, meaning that it can be used to produce nuclear energy or to build nuclear weapons. Despite |
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security concerns about proliferation, the United States and other nuclear nations have regularly shared with other countries nuclear technology, materials, and knowledge for peaceful purposes. In Atomic Assistance, Matthew Fuhrmann argues that governments use peaceful nuclear assistance as a tool of economic statecraft. Nuclear suppliers hope that they can reap the benefits of foreign aid-improving relationships with their allies, limiting the influence of their adversaries, enhancing their energy security by gaining favorable access to oil supplies-without undermining their security. By providing peaceful nuclear assistance, however, countries inadvertently help spread nuclear weapons. Fuhrmann draws on several cases of "Atoms for Peace," including U.S. civilian nuclear assistance to Iran from 1957 to 1979; Soviet aid to Libya from 1975 to 1986; French, Italian, and Brazilian nuclear exports to Iraq from 1975 to 1981; and U.S. nuclear cooperation with India from 2001 to 2008. He also explores decision making in countries such as Japan, North Korea, Pakistan, South Africa, and Syria to determine why states began (or did not begin) nuclear weapons programs and why some programs succeeded while others failed. Fuhrmann concludes that, on average, countries receiving higher levels of peaceful nuclear assistance are more likely to pursue and acquire the bomb-especially if they experience an international crisis after receiving aid. |
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UNINA9910773604403321 |
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Autore |
Åkerström Malin |
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Hidden attractions of administration : the peculiar appeal of meetings and documents / / Malin Åkerström [and three others] |
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[Place of publication not identified] : , : Taylor & Francis (Unlimited), , 2021 |
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1 online resource (170 pages) |
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Human services - Management |
Social service - Psychological aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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1. Eigendynamik -- 2. The administration society -- 3. Seductive gatherings -- 4. Sneaky work and aways -- 5. A spark of magic -- 6. Beauty and boost -- 7. Spirals of meetings and documents -- 8. Dramatizing administrative skills -- 9. Muddy transparency -- 10. The devotion to teaching -- 11. Magic, emotions, and morality. |
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This book argues that the expansion of administrative activities in today's working life is driven not only by pressure from above, but also from below. The authors examine the inner dynamics of people-processing organizations--those formally working for clients, patients, or students--to uncover the hidden attractions of doing administrative work, despite all the complaints and laments about "too many meetings" or "too much paperwork." There is something appealing to those compelled to participate in today's constantly multiplying and expanding administration that defies popular framings of it as merely pressure from above. Hidden Attractions of Administration shows in detail the emotional attractiveness, moral conflicts, and almost magical features that administrative tasks often entail in today's organizations, supported by ethnographic studies consisting of over 200 qualitative interviews and participant observations from ten organizational settings and contexts across Sweden. The authors also question and complement explanations in administration-related research that have previously been taken for granted, arguing that it is a simplification to |
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attribute all aspects of the change to New Public Management and instead taking into account what the classic sociologist Georg Simmel called anEigendynamik: a self-reinforcing tendency that, under certain circumstances, needs only a nudge in an administrative direction to get going. By applying ethnography to issues of bureaucratization and meeting cultures and by drawing on findings in emotional sociology and social anthropology, this volume contributes to both the sociology of work and the study of human service organizations and will appeal to scholars and students working across both areas. |
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