Strategic International Environment – Is Europe Ready for a New Concert of the Superpowers? Central European Perspectives

• Authors: Polinceusz Łukasz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

There is no doubt that the strategic international environment is subject to extremely dynamic changes today. Relative stabilization in Europe built and won as a result of democratic changes following the Cold War era, is being replacedin many areas by destabilization. New challenges are gaining importance and threats. Worth mentioning are: unpredictable political changes, terrorism, cyberthreats, assymetric challenges causing tensions, climate changes, and in the social sphere: especially migrations and demographics. Uncertainty is growing, risks are increasing both in global dimension and regional, which affects the situation of Poland and neighboring countries. The uncertainty and unpredictability is now the key factor in development of relationships between different actors in the international environment.

Keywords

EN

Uncertainty;; Unpredictability;; Europe;European Union;; Security;; Changes;; V4;; Weimar Triangle;; Migrations;; Demographics;; Ecology;

• Publisher: Centre for Europe, University of Warsaw
• Journal: Studia Europejskie-Studies in European Affairs
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 1
• Pages: 157-172

Contributors

author

Polinceusz Łukasz

• Casimir Pulaski Foundation

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Identifiers

DOI

10.33067/SE.1.2019.09