3월 26-27일 진행될 서울 핵안보정상회의의와 관련한 전재성 EAI 아시아안보연구센터 소장의 기고문, "An agenda for the Seoul Nuclear Security Summit"이 아고라 아시아-유럽네트워크(Agora Asia-Europe)의 Policy Brief에 게재되었습니다. 전재성 소장은 기고문을 통해 서울 핵안보정상회의의 함의 및 과제를 살펴보고, 성공적인 회의 개최를 위한 정책제언을 제시하였습니다. 스페인의 프리데(FRIDE) 재단은 유럽의 대아시아정책 개발에 기여하고자 유럽과 아시아 지역의 싱크탱크, 정책결정권자, 여론 주도층 및 전문가들로 구성된 아고라 아시아-유럽네트워크를 발족하였으며, EAI는 아고라 아시아-유럽네트워크의 아시아 지역 14개 대표 정책연구기관 중 한국의 대표기관으로 초청되어 다른 연구기관들과 함께 협력하고 있습니다.

 

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On 27-28 March 2012 the next Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) takes place in Seoul. Given developments in Asian security this meeting comes at a crucial time and addresses issues of broader international importance. The Summit process indicates that governance regimes are developing even in areas of hard security. Gathering top-level decision-makers from more than 50 countries in one place to discuss security issues is indicative of the far reaching changes that international relations are going through. Having this summit in Seoul shines a spotlight on the question of North Korea at a delicate juncture in that country. This policy brief suggests the steps the Seoul meeting should take to advance in collective security, globally but especially in Asia.

 

THE MULTILATERAL APPROACH

 

The NSS first took place in 2010. It was the result of a new approach by the United States to the threat of nuclear terrorism. While nuclear terrorism was a major concern since the end of the Cold War, the 9/11 attacks renewed focus in the United States on what is one of the greatest threats to homeland security.

 

Under the Bush administration the approach was mainly a unilateral one that targeted directly terrorist groups, their bases overseas and their sponsors. Such policies led to an international backlash against the United States that harmed its image overseas and strained alliances. Furthermore, such an unilateral approach contributed to a budget deficit that since the global financial crisis of 2008 has placed large constraints on available resources to the United States.

 

As a result of these difficulties and limitations, the Obama administration renewed its grand strategy for national security with a focus on multilateral engagement. In the nuclear arena, it conceived of the Nuclear Security Summit as a new approach to confront the threat of nuclear terrorism. Rather than targeting terrorists directly, this new strategy seeks to take on the tools used by terrorists, such as loose nuclear materials. As a multilateral arrangement, the Nuclear Security Summit seeks to overcome the difficulties caused by unilateral approaches.

 

President Barack Obama during his Prague speech in April 2009 to promote a ‘world without nuclear weapons,’ stressed the importance of nuclear disarmament, nonproliferation and the peaceful use of nuclear energy. The Nuclear Security Summit is therefore a US-led global regime that represents the Obama administrations’ efforts to launch a broad and comprehensive strategy to counter nuclear terrorism...(Continued)

 

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