Impacts of the nuclear safety securitization on the position of Germany in the international system

The international system of the 21st century is facing a number of challenges that arise from high interdependent arrangements of the globalized world. These challenges have to be responded by the actors of the international relations at the national, regional or international level. The issue of energy security and its ensuring is a challenge especially for states, which remain the primary actors in international relations. Governments bind the ensuring of energy security of the country directly to the national security and approve measures to ensure stable energy supplies that are uninterrupted. The Federal Republic of Germany stepped with its energy transformation into a new phase of international relations, which means that Germany's goal is to be less dependent on foreign sources of energy supplies and reduce its dependence. The trigger to start the process of moving away from nuclear energy can be traced to the Japanese nuclear power plant accident in Fukushima in March 2011. This event revived the already healed "Chernobyl syndrome" in the German society and led directly to the securitization of nuclear safety. An ambitious and unprecedented decision of Germany will have a significant impact on its position in the international system, whether in the case of a successful or unsuccessful implementation of this energy transformation.