Global Challenges : Navigating a Way for the EU as a Global Actor
We live in an age of deep transformation of both the global and human condition. The driving forces are essentially technological, but they have profound ecological and social consequences. On the deepest level, the post-industrial revolutions in science and technology are further multiplying our power to manipulate our physical environment, both by increasing our understanding of the world about us, and by giving us ever more powerful technological and economic development This can be either good or bad, depending upon how we use our increased power. Here the record from the industrial age is mixed and depends upon one’s perspective. Socially some 15% of the world’s population - including the EU - have reached historically unparalleled standards of living, while almost all other societies in the world have had their traditional forms of livelihood disrupted and some 20% are now helplessly uprooted. Ecologically the legacy of the industrial revolution is disastrous, but it has also led to advances in science and technology that enable us to address our current problems. Humanity - or the elite portion of humanity to which the EU belongs - is empowered as never before. This leads to one fundamental long term challenge, and a series of more immediate short term challenges which are analyzed in this paper.
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Tomas RIES (Swedish Institute of International Affairs)
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- ekologická politika
- ekonomická integrace
- EKONOMIKA
- EVROPSKÁ UNIE
- globalizace
- hospodářská politika
- informace a zpracování informací
- informační společnost
- mezinárodní bezpečnost
- mezinárodní bezpečnost
- mezinárodní role EU
- MEZINÁRODNÍ VZTAHY
- mír
- ochrana životního prostředí
- poškozování životního prostředí
- struktura Společenství
- technologická změna
- technologie a technické předpisy
- trvale udržitelný rozvoj
- VZDĚLÁVÁNÍ A KOMUNIKACE
- VÝROBA, TECHNOLOGIE A VÝZKUM
- zhoršování životního prostředí
- ŽIVOTNÍ PROSTŘEDÍ