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ABSTRACT
Many strategic experts aver that in the 21st century, the most
threatening phenomenon to civilization is nuclear terrorism. The study
examined this challenge against the background of a global nuclear
renaissance, with corresponding dangers to the security, stability, and
peace of the globe. We had subjected to scrutiny two pivotal
international regulatory mechanisms – the IAEA, and the NPT – put in
place to check the spread of nuclear weapons and by extension nuclear
terrorism. We had posed three research questions as follows: (1) Do the
statutory provisions of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
undermine its enforcement capacity against nuclear terrorism? (2) Are
there impediments to the
enforcement capacity of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to
act as an effective international regulatory mechanism against the
unapproved spread of nuclear technology? and (3) Do the statutory
limitations of both the IAEA and the NPT regulatory mechanisms
constitute a threat to global security? We adopted two theories – the
theory of power politics, and the theory of discontent and frustration –
to aid the analysis of generated data. Being a qualitative and
non-experimental research, we adopted the observation method of
evaluating extant literature, and the explanatory single case ex-post
facto design, which expressed itself in a Logical Data Framework. We
found, that indeed, (1) the statutory provisions of the International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) undermined its enforcement capacity against
nuclear terrorism; (2) there were impediments to the enforcement
capacity of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to act as an
effective international regulatory mechanism against the unapproved
spread of nuclear technology, and, (3) that the statutory limitations of
both the IAEA and the NPT regulatory mechanisms constitute a treat to
global security. The findings would have immense strategic implications,
especially in this era of globalization. We, consequently, made
recommendations, with emphasis on the restructuring of the UN,
especially in relation to the greater empowerment of the IAEA and NPT to
enable both to become more effective as international regulatory
mechanisms in the
fight against nuclear terrorism.
CHAPTER ONE
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INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the Study
The emergence of the nuclear age on a military note in 1945
revolutionized warfare and life in general, and established the issue of
atomic control as a lingering global strategic concern. Since then,
however, nuclear proliferation has advanced from vertical nuclear
proliferation, through horizontal nuclear proliferation to the
contemporary global nuclear renaissance which has largely and perilously
popularized and deregulated nuclear technology. This paradigmatic shift
in energy choice has created a thriving global
plutonium economy and nuclear black market, and also enlarged the
contemporary nuclear proliferation list of concern to include the
terrorist. In the contemporary age of terrorism, strategic attention has
logically been drawn more to the challenge of nuclear terrorism as a
critical issue with many strategic experts asserting conclusively that
only a firm atomic control capable of denying terrorists nuclear
capability suffices to contain the challenge of nuclear terrorism.
Nuclear terrorism, the threat or actual application of nuclear
technology in the conduct of terrorism, has entered the strategic
lexicon and according to strategic experts constitute the greatest
threat to global security especially in the 21st century (Barnaby, 2007:
Allison, 2004; Ferguson and Potter, 2004). Thus, tackling the challenge
of
nuclear terrorism through a firm atomic control was the theme of both
the April 2010 Nuclear Security Summit in Washington DC, USA, and the
subsequent March 2012 Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, South Korea. For
global atomic control, however, the world to a very large extent still
rely on the effectiveness of two international regulatory mechanisms
under the auspices of the United Nationals (UN), videlicet, the 1957
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the 1968 Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
The foregoing international nuclear regulatory mechanisms are today
challenged by the contemporary global nuclear renaissance and the tilt
toward sophistication discernible in contemporary global terrorism aptly
termed postmodern terrorism which is characteristically noted for mass
destruction. Furthermore, recurrent and persistent global energy crisis
has created an understandable resurgence in the frantic quest for
dual-use nuclear energy fundamentally as a panacea to the daunting
externalities and uncertainties discernible in other energy sources. Of
utmost strategic concern, however, is that evidently
many of those actors pursuing nuclear technology are doing so with a
clandestine view to manufacturing nuclear weapons, and not necessarily
for civilian applications as permitted by the charters of two
international regulatory mechanisms: the IAEA and the NPT. Most of these
actors are from the Global South with a plethora of failing and failed
states. This trend termed nuclear renaissance has in exchange with a
zero-carbon nuclear energy created a more strategically worrisome and
thriving global plutonium economy at a very strategically challenging
time when international terrorism is snowballing in sophistication,
cadred by creative and dedicated micro actors and mercantilist “holy
warriors” of nihilistic
and apocalyptic bent.
Contemporary terrorists enjoy three challenging factors: cadred by
hard-to-detect micro actors leveraging advanced technology and the tools
of globalization, rare sophistication, and an overlapping with
transnational crime (Nemtsova, 2010; Country Reports on Terrorism,
2005/2006). There exists a symbiotic relationship between terrorism and
transnational crime (Baker, 2009). Southwell (2002) observes that
transnational crime constitutes a threat to global security, safety and
stability through; the trafficking of arms and weapons of mass
destruction… He concludes that “One further catastrophic side effect of
international criminal activities has been the expansion of terrorist
activities” (Southwell,
2002:4). Thus, nuclear renaissance, if unchecked, is bound to be
leveraged by contemporary terrorists. Sopko (1996-97:3), observes that
“Previously distinct issues–proliferation, terrorism, arms control and
organized crime – are merging…”
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