1、produced for ESPASby the European Union Institute for Security Studies100,avenue SuffrenF-75015 Parisphone:+33(0)1 56 89 19 30fax:+33(0)1 56 89 19 31e-mail:infoiss.europa.euwww.iss.europa.euISBN 978-92-9198-199-1QN-31-12-525-EN-Cdoi:10.2815/27508Citizens in an Interconnected and Polycentric WorldGLO

2、BAL TRENDS 2030European UnionInstitute for Security StudiesCitizens in an Interconnected and Polycentric WorldPrinted in Cond-sur-Noireau(France)by Corlet Imprimeur March 2012 The EUISS has produced a groundbreaking report which for the first time looks at the impact of an increasingly empowered glo

3、bal citizenry on the international system.The report paints a world which is no longer a relatively static one of states,but delves deep into the drivers and forces such as the communications revolution that are moulding and constraining state behaviour,not the other way around.Mathew Burrows,Nation

4、al Intelligence CouncilThe objective of this report,coordinated by lvaro de Vasconcelos,is to establish what will be the major world trends prevailing in the ongoing phase of transition that has characterised the first decade of the twenty-first century.The report correctly draws a picture of global

5、 multipolarity.Of particular interest is the scope of its content and research,which was conducted not only in the developed world but also in the major poles of the emerging world.The analysis of the report is based on thorough and far-reaching research which is very useful to understand the comple

6、xities of the present global context.Marco Aurelio Garcia,Special Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of BrazilThe EUISS ESPAS report is comprehensive and thought-provoking.I look forward to the debate it will generate in my country as well as in the others discussed.Radha Kumar,Director,Peace&C