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In The Age of Deception, Dr. ElBaradei gives us his account
from the centre of the nuclear fray. Readers will sit at the dinner
table with Iraqi officials in Baghdad, listening as they bleakly
predict the coming war. They will eavesdrop on the exchanges between
UN inspectors and U. S. officials observing the behind-the-scenes
formulation of an approach to foreign policy and diplomacy that would
come to characterise the Bush administration. We gain a feel for the
difficulty of the IAEA inspectors' struggle to maintain objectivity
when trust has been broken, or when the press - or governments - are
playing fast and loose with the facts. The Age of Deception is
a story of human imperfection, of modern society struggling to come to
grips with the multiple dimensions of human insecurity.
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When, in 1997, the International Atomic Energy Agency unanimously
elected Mohamed ElBaradei as its next Director General, few observers
could have forecast the dramatic role he would play over the next 12
years. Certainly, the stage onto which Dr. ElBaradei stepped - featuring
Saddam Hussein's Iraq, Kim Jong-Il's North Korea, Muammar al-Gaddafi's
Libya, and the Islamic Republic of Iran - gave ample opportunity for
high-stakes and high-profile decision-making. But no one could have
predicted that ElBaradei would be the man in the middle' of so many
nuclear conflicts over so sustained a period of time. And after he and
the IAEA were jointly awarded the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize, his role as
middle-man only gained intensity.< >
In The Age of Deception, Dr. ElBaradei gives us his account
from the centre of the nuclear fray. Readers will sit at the dinner
table with Iraqi officials in Baghdad, listening as they bleakly
predict the coming war. They will eavesdrop on the exchanges between
UN inspectors and U. S. officials observing the behind-the-scenes
formulation of an approach to foreign policy and diplomacy that would
come to characterise the Bush administration. We gain a feel for the
difficulty of the IAEA inspectors' struggle to maintain objectivity
when trust has been broken, or when the press - or governments - are
playing fast and loose with the facts. The Age of Deception is
a story of human imperfection, of modern society struggling to come to
grips with the multiple dimensions of human insecurity.
DIV>
When, in 1997, the International Atomic Energy Agency unanimously
elected Mohamed ElBaradei as its next Director General, few observers
could have forecast the dramatic role he would play over the next 12
years. Certainly, the stage onto which Dr. ElBaradei stepped - featuring
Saddam Hussein's Iraq, Kim Jong-Il's North Korea, Muammar al-Gaddafi's
Libya, and the Islamic Republic of Iran - gave ample opportunity for
high-stakes and high-profile decision-making. But no one could have
predicted that ElBaradei would be the man in the middle' of so many
nuclear conflicts over so sustained a period of time. And after he and
the IAEA were jointly awarded the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize, his role as
middle-man only gained intensity.<
