Position is power

How position shapes who decides. Part 5 of a five-part series.

IAEA’s 1795th Board of Governors meeting was held at the agency’s headquarters in Vienna, Austria on March 2, 2026. (Dean Calma/IAEA)

Power in global science governance is built into who can operate, measure, access systems, and persist. This series examines those dynamics in five parts, concluding here with position.

Within the U.N.’s atomic watchdog, th…