States and the nuclear power. An international perspective

Understanding the Intensity of UK Policy Commitments to Nuclear Power

“…Seen like this, power is 'polythetic' -in the sense that it will manifest in any given view or setting, in far more plural ways than can adequately be captured by the concepts used to try to understand it (Needham 1975). Conditions for maintenance or challenge of nuclear technologies, for instance, may vary radically from setting to settingcollectively displaying a number of dimensions which no one case may manifest in full (Koopmans & Duyvendak 1995;Baigorri et al 2012). So any given categorical scheme for understanding power will always miss crucial 'rhizomic' connections, exceptions and sources of surprises (Deleuze & Guattari 1987).…”