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The JCMS Annual Review Lecture Sustainable Integration: Towards EU 2.0?
Author(s) -
NICOLAΪDIS KALYPSO
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
jcms: journal of common market studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.54
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1468-5965
pISSN - 0021-9886
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5965.2010.02092.x
Subject(s) - library science , political science , sociology , computer science
Many in Europe today feel that we are hovering on the brink of chaos. We have managed collectively to disrupt the fragile equilibrium of our ecosystem, in place since the dawn of humanity. The storms of global capitalism strike with unprecedented force in every corner of the globe, leaving much human debris in their wake. And nuclear Armageddon seems only marginally less implausible than it was half a century ago. However, today’s general malaise is but a glimpse of what is to be expected in 20 years – looming wars over resources like oil, water and clean air, hunger or disease on an unprecedented scale, masses of refugees fleeing man-made and natural disasters, exploding inequalities and global imbalances as the world population rises towards the nine billion mark. On our continent itself, the view ahead to 2030 is no less gloomy: the aspirations of today’s youth swamped by inter-generational debt, the young