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other regions. Worrying is additionally that in some of the most powerful countries of
the world, for example the United States, in Russia, and in China. We see that
governments of these countries want to expand the military arsenal, and to reduce or
to cancel even arms controller arrangements particularly those between Russia and the
United States. So much in a very brief picture the state of our world.
Now if you look at the various countries effected from this, about
200 countries. We’re having the world who are either nation states or state nations.
They are… many of them are struggling with authoritarianism, with the stagnation of
democracy and particularly in the Western world, we have a remarkable shift away
from the traditional division of political parties being organized, either being close to
the right or the left or to urban or rural populations. The new conflict line we see in
many countries are now those which are created by globalization. Globalization as you
all will know creates on the one hand people who see themselves as the winners, but
many people see themselves as the loser of globalization. So, a big issue particularly
in the Western world is now the question, “should we go more for open borders or
should we close our borders?” And that is a threat to many countries and that has
also created in many countries, particularly in the region of Europe, a deep division of
people. One example, maybe the most prominent example for that is the Brexit,
where one half of the British population thinks this kind of internationalization was to
our disadvantage, while the other half thinks, no, it was good and we can profit from
that.
Now I think that this challenge might be the key challenge of the 21st century.
And the way how we engage with this conflict in our nation states or state nations is
how can we cope with that? How can we cope with the fact that we have a
booming international tourism that we have at the same time 60 million refugees that
transnational companies try to pick the country with the lowest tax to settle there,
themselves?
What about global warming? What about other environmental challenges? What
about if the model of America First is implemented in the rest of the countries as
well? I am therefore concluding that in this environment in the current world, we
have to ask ourselves what’s the future? Is the future in more cooperation or
integration? But the European Union might be an example that they went too far that
they didn’t take sufficiently into account what people can cope with of integration.
And on the other hand, one could ask, did ASEAN not go far enough, integrated
more and cooperated more? So, most observers of the global political landscape argue
that if we like it or not the future will bring more conflicts in the social economic
world, the political world, and also because of the challenges of ecology. And the
question is how can we cope with these complex conflicts? And that is an issue why
I think it is important to prepare ourselves to live in political environments, to live in
political landscapes where people are capable to cope with the multiplicity of conflicts.
That is my overall assessment of the framework in which we have to move for the ª£¸²£ª±¡¡²¥¸h¡¢h¢µÈ
foreseeable future.
