The Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa is a partner of the Clube de Lisboa in the Conference on “Security: from Europe to the Indo-Pacific”, which will take place on Friday, March 3, with the participation of national and international experts.

The global economic and security panorama has been worsening at the beginning of this decade, in contexts of erosion of multilateralism and growing rivalry between great powers, in a scenario of increasing multipolarity and appetite for power games.

The Conference is divided into four thematic panels: the War in Europe, the impact of the invasion of Ukraine on EU–NATO relations; The Security in the Indo-Pacific, with the increase of conflicts and disputes in both regions; The Energy and food as strategic weapons, with the interconnections between war, energy transition and food security; and finally the panel Between multilateralism and the power of the strongest, on the erosion of international law, and the multipolar dynamics that emerge in the face of increasing threats.

Participating in the conference, among other renowned specialists, Ana Santos Pinto, Professor of Political Studies at Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Dhesigen Naidoo, researcher at the Johannesburg Institute for Security Studies; Hilal Khashan, Professor of Political Science in Beirut; Latha Reddy, former Deputy Director of the National Security Council of India and Luis Tomé, director of the Department of International Relations at UAL and its research unit OBSERVARE-Observatory of Foreign Affairs. Maria Raquel Freire, professor of International Relations at the University of Coimbra; Richard Higgott, professor at the Brussels Center on Security, Diplomacy and Strategy; Rosa Balfour, director of Carnegie Europe; Sandra Fernandes, professor of International Relations at the University of Minho and Braga; Tosh Minohara, Professor of International Relations and Security Studies in Kobe, Japan and Sinan Ulgen, president of Istanbul EDAM.
The closing session will feature the intervention of the Minister of National Defence, Helena Carreiras.

PROGRAM:

09h00 – 09h30 | OPENING

Maja Markovcic Kostelac
Francisco Seixas da Costa

Panel 1
09h30 – 11h00 | war in europe

Sinan Ulgen
Elena Lazarou
Rosa Balfour
Maria Raquel Freire

Panel 2
11:30 am – 1:00 pm | Security in the Indo-Pacific

Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Yoko Iwama
Richard Higgott
Luis Tomé

Panel 3
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm | Energy and Food as strategic weapons

Dhesigen Naidoo
Hilal Khashan
Jorge Arbache
Ana Santos Pinto

Panel 4
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm | Between multilateralism and the power of the strongest

Vijaya Latha Reddy
Tosh Minohara
Robert Sutter
Sandra Fernandes

6:00 pm – 6:30 pm | CLOSING

Helena Carreiras

More information at: Security: from Europe to the Indo-Pacific (clubelisboa.pt)