The Role of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Maintaining Nuclear Peace and Non-proliferation Regime in the 21st Century

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https://doi.org/10.12797/Politeja.14.2017.50.07

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global nuclear safety, global nuclear governance, IAEA

Abstract

The article is an attempt to explain the IAEA’s critical role in ensuring global nuclear safety and on the global nuclear governance system. The objective of the Agency’s operation is promotion of the peaceful use of nuclear energy, including the use of energy to produce electricity, along with establishment of a system of safeguards to ensure that the countries do not use the peaceful assistance for military purposes.The aim of the article is to present the principles of the internationalsystem of nuclear safeguards and the role of the IAEA in maintaining nuclear peace and nuclear challenges of non-proliferation regime reform. The duality of nuclear technology (dual use) causes the need of strengthening the competence-control and institutional resources of the IAEA. It is necessary to oblige the Member States to cooperate with the Agency’s inspectors. The Agency should also develop a procedure to standardize the rules, structure, and legal restrictions. In addition the UN Security Council should react faster in the case of non-compliance detection. A separate issue is the internationalization of the fuel cycle.

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  • Tomasz Młynarski, Jagiellonian University

    Associate Professor in Jagiellonian University, Faculty of International and Political Studies. A scholarship holder at the l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris and the University of the Sorbonne, lecturer at the Sciences Po Bordeaux, specializing in issues related to energy security and international environmental protection. Author of monographs and articles, among others: Bezpieczeństwo energetyczne w pierwszej dekadzie XXI wieku. Mozaika interesów geostrategii [Energy security in the first decade of the 21st century. Mosaic of interests and geostrategy](2011), Francja w procesie uwspólnotowania bezpieczeństwa energetycznego i polityki klimatycznej Unii Europejskiej [France in the process of communitarisation of energy security and climate policy of the European Union] (2013), Energetyka jądrowa wobec globalnych wyzwań bezpieczeństwa energetycznego i reżimu nieproliferacji w erze zmian klimatu [Nuclear energy towards the global challenges of energy security and the non-proliferation regime in the era of climate change](2016), Bezpieczeństwo energetyczne i ochrona klimatu w drugiej dekadzie XXI wieku. Energia, środowisko, klimat [Enery security and climate protection in the second decade of the 21st century. Energy, environment, climate] (2017).

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Vol. 14 No. 5 (50) (2017): Global and Regional Security Challenges

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“The Role of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Maintaining Nuclear Peace and Non-Proliferation Regime in the 21st Century”. 2017. Politeja 14 (5 (50): 149-65. https://doi.org/10.12797/Politeja.14.2017.50.07.