Regional leaders, global challenges: issues, interests and strategies: 12th International Summer School 2008

Titel: Regional leaders, global challenges: issues, interests and strategies: 12th International Summer School 2008
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Veröffentlicht: Berlin, 2008
Umfang: Online-Ressource, 56 S.
Format: E-Book
Sprache: Englisch
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DGAP-Bericht ; Bd. 13
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Zusammenfassung: Abstract: "In a world more and more characterized by multipolar structures, stability is an ever more evasive aim. Political theory tells us that multipolar systems are much less stable than bipolar or hegemonic ones. For the next generation of global political leaders it is paramount to understand how tectonic shifts in our present global order will influence the relative position of their own countries. The shifting parameters of rising powers, trends of regional cooperation and integration will set the stage for an emerging new world order where not only states and markets, but increasingly also transnational networks will play an ever more important role. In this sense, we could address networks in a double perspective: in the real world which we try to shape and understand and also in the world of young leaders who will have to shoulder the bulk of work and responsibility in the years and decades ahead. For many years, we at the German Council on Foreign Relations have been actively try