The U.N. Inspections in Iraq: Lessons for On-Site Verification by Kathleen C. BaileyReview by: Eliot A. CohenForeign Affairs, Vol. 74, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 1995), p. 167Published by: Council on Foreign RelationsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20047326 .

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The U.N. Inspections in Iraq: Lessons for On-Site Verification,

by kathleen c.

bailey. Boulder: Westview Press,

1995,151pp. $49.95. The author, a former government official

and senior fellow at Lawrence Livermore

National Laboratory, lays out clearly the

lessons of the Iraq inspection effort.

She covers a wide range of problems, from the mundane (the physical burdens of suiting up to visit contaminated sites) to the intangible (the psychology of self

censorship). The gist of the argument is simple: inspection is a much more

difficult business than one would think, even when the subject is nominally

cooperative. It is a great pity that the

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