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Replication Data for: The Disclosure Dilemma: Nuclear Intelligence and International Organizations

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Title Replication Data for: The Disclosure Dilemma: Nuclear Intelligence and International Organizations
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JQEUBQ
 
Creator Carnegie, Allison
Carson, Austin
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Scholars have long argued that international organizations solve information problems through increased transparency. This article introduces a distinct problem that instead requires such institutions to keep information secret. We argue that states often seek to reveal intelligence about other states' violations of international rules and laws but are deterred by concerns about revealing the sources and methods used to collect it. Properly equipped international organizations, however, can mitigate these dilemmas by analyzing and acting on sensitive information while protecting it from wide dissemination. Using new data on intelligence disclosures to the International Atomic Energy Agency and an analysis of the full universe of nuclear proliferation cases, we demonstrate that strengthening the Agency's intelligence protection capabilities led to greater intelligence sharing and fewer suspected nuclear facilities. However, our theory suggests that this solution gives informed states a subtle form of influence and is in tension with the normative goal of international transparency.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Global governance
Nuclear weapons
Intelligence
 
Contributor Carnegie, Allison
 
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