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In the last few years there have been many developments that have had a great influence on the international community. The rise of China and India, American unilateralism, terrorist attacks, the Dutch and French rejection of the European Constitutional Treaty, a newly assertive Russia, the invasion of Iraq; the list is long. Based on the assumption that the world of tomorrow can be found in the actions of today, De Balie is looking for the future of the international community. This will be done by observing the behavior of influential countries and discuss underlying perceptions, cultural influences, power politics, economic interests and sometimes even individual personality.
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The problems and threats that the international community has to deal with in the coming twenty years are considerable. Climate change, fighting poverty, environmental degradation, access to energy and other resources, local and regional conflicts, terrorism, etc. Solutions to these problems have to be found during a period in which the rules of governing the international community are unclear. On the one hand this is caused by the increasing economic and political power of several countries, especially China, that operate on the basis of a different set of assumptions in the international arena than Western countries.
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