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CONFERENCE

SECURITY: FROM EUROPE TO THE INDO-PACIFIC

3 Mar. 2023

EMSA LISBOA

Ásia

A discussion on growing security concerns in various parts of the world, from the Indo-Pacific regions to Europe.

Since the end of the last decade, economy is deteriorating worldwide, due to a variety of phenomena, from consequences of rising CO2 emissions to Covid-19 pandemics and to disruptions in parts of the production and distribution chains. Besides, scarcity of energy, inflation and debt are again on the rise since the beginning of the current decade, affecting developed and less developed countries – these last ones forced to deal with humanitarian problems in parallel with the need to modernize their economies.

Increasing security concerns add to these circumstances in various parts of the world, since the Indo and Pacific regions to Europe – in this case with worsening realities and concerns since the February 2022 military invasion of Ukraine by Russia, signalling the return of war to European soil. This overall scenario is unfolding in a framework of erosion of multilateralism and of increasing rivalry and competition amongst greater powers. A still diffuse international order is in the making, balancing among a rules-based international system, a multipolar world, and the exercise of hard power.