OAR@UM Community:https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/461382026-04-12T13:07:57Z2026-04-12T13:07:57ZReclaiming social Europe in the shadows of a global predatory economyhttps://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/465712019-09-22T05:11:14Z2017-12-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Reclaiming social Europe in the shadows of a global predatory economy
Abstract: As the third millenium approaches the end of its second decade,
the ideal of equality continues to be threatened by a global value
system that is soft on the accumulation and concentration of wealth and
power to the detriment of the collective good and to the sustainability
of communities in general. Europe is not immune to the encroachment
of a global, predatory economic model that has eaten into the ideal of
solidarity and the common good.
Description: This document contains the Table of Contents, the Keynote Welcome Address by HE Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca, President of Malta, and photo insets.2017-12-01T00:00:00ZManaging security challenges in the Euro-Mediterranean areahttps://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/465702019-09-22T05:11:17Z2017-12-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Managing security challenges in the Euro-Mediterranean area
Abstract: Throughout history the Mediterranean has continuously been at the
centre of international relations. The end of the Cold War led some
pundits to believe that the Mediterranean would be marginalized in
global relations. The enlargement of the European Union towards the
east, the rise of China in Asia and the emergence of India and Brazil
as leading economic developing countries further cemented this
perception.
Yet the process of globalization has not shifted international attention
away from the Mediterranean. Three decades since the end of the Cold
War it is clear that the Mediterranean remains an essential strategic
theatre of operation linking Europe, North Africa, the Balkans, the
Middle East and the Black Sea together.
Anyone questioning the strategic relevance of the Mediterranean in
contemporary international relations must be careful not to confuse the
rise of China and the Asia Pacific in general with a diminishment of the
Euro-Mediterranean sphere of influence. While the East-West dynamic
pattern of relations and the North-South dynamic pattern of relations
continue to shift in different directions, the physical importance of the
Mediterranean as a geo-strategic waterway remains a constant.2017-12-01T00:00:00Z