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38 STRATEGIC DRIVERS 3. The growing economic strength of the developing countries, in particular in Asia and South-America (China, India and Brazil), will lead to an increase in the competition on resources with the developed countries. The geographical areas, where resources such as gas, oil and minerals resources will be drawn from, are likely to remain unstable regions. 4. Markets for goods, services and labour will continue to see a growth of internationalisation, reinforcing the worldwide economical dependencies and integration. This will result in increasing interdependencies, competition and economical linkages between economic regions which are currently traditionally separated. Due to these interdependencies, the probability for large scale traditional interstate warfare is likely to decline. 5. International criminality will cross national borders in a stronger way and will try to benefit from inefficiency of interstate mechanisms founded to fight organised crime. POTENTIAL SOURCES OF CONFLICT, THREAT AND HUMANITARIAN TRAGEDY 6. Economic instabilities will remain one of the main sources for conflicts. Although there will be an increase in global wealth, the gap between the haves and the have nots, within each country is likely to grow and is likely to provoke internal social crisis. In the densely populated, developing countries in Asia, a massive growth in inequalities may create an eruption of social and political tensions, thus endangering internal stability and social cohesion. 7. The standard of living in sub-Saharan Africa will decline. As a result migration from the sub-Saharan African region is likely to increase as that area becomes more and more excluded from the benefits of globalisation. 8. The competition for resources between developing countries and the developed countries will lead to a growing relevance for security and access to the supply routes of energy and raw materials, in order to sustain the economical growth. 9. As world economy becomes more tightly integrated the collapse of national economies is likely to have percussions in the world overall economical system and therefore is likely to create tensions as states try to react independently to domestic crisis and the wider effects of economic collapses. 10. Economical criminality is likely to present a challenge as it may support the financing of terrorism. POSSIBLE CONSEQUENCES FOR DEFENCE © sxc.hu 11. Concepts - <strong>Defence</strong> budgets will further decline due to weak economic growth or even in growing economy as a result of growing competition of natural resources. States may not be able to sustain a full range of capabilities by themselves. Possible opportunities for co-operation and specialisation will have to be evaluated. 12. In order to gain more financial flexibility for defence budgets, core military tasks will have to be identified and then possibilities, constraints and conditions for outsourcing will have to be identified and evaluated. 13. Limited financial resources will influence doctrines and concepts. How to conduct operations may have to be considered more innovative ways. 14. Armed forces may have to pay special attention to, and to participate in the securing economic flows as well as supply routes. The aim would be to guarantee access to energy supplies and raw materials despite the resources being located in unstable regions of the world. FUTURE TRENDS FROM THE CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN
STRATEGIC DRIVERS 15. Training - Armed forces may be tasked to address criminal activities through closer international and interagency cooperation in crisis management operations. This may include growing relevance of internal security activities of armed forces, which may result in new conceptual and doctrinal considerations. 16. Equipment - In an international context where the numbers of crises outside Europe is likely to multiply, it may become necessary to review the capabilities of the armed forces to deploy to overseas theatres of operation. 17. Manpower - A recruitment problem may arise for the armed forces in Europe as competition for skilled young personnel is likely to increase. The commercial world will often be able to offer more attractive conditions and pay. © sxc.hu 39 GLOBAL GOVERNANCE & INTERNATIONAL LAW MAJOR TRENDS 1. The world will continue to grow more interdependent and more complicated. Transnational pressures, competition and globalisation will challenge the robustness and resilience of governance and social mechanisms at every level. 2. The strategic outlook and interests of key state actors may grow more divergent and their willingness and ability to enter multilateral commitments is likely to vary as new players, such as China and India, alter the balance of power. 3. The exercise of national sovereignty will increasingly be expressed in support of collective international action but regimes and policies will continue to act to protect their citizens and their vital interests. A range of weak or failed states, on the other hand, will continue to pose a security problem. 4. States will remain central actors of global governance but non-state actors are likely to acquire more influence and affect the context in which states and inter-governmental organisations operate. Cooperative, competitive or conflictive interactions between government, business and trans-national civil society is likely to grow in intensity and scope. Terrorist networks and trans-national organised crime will continue to exploit and abuse this increasingly complex patchwork of arrangements and may weaken the state’s monopoly of violence. 5. Against the shortcomings of global institutions, the role of alternative forms of governance will be required to cope with complex, inter-connected global and regional problems. 6. The international law on the use of force will need to adjust to these <strong>development</strong>s. Striking an acceptable balance between effectiveness and legitimacy will be the key challenge, not least because the very notion of legitimacy is likely to be contested. In addition, there may be a broadening of the criteria for the use of force in the case of anticipatory self defence. POTENTIAL SOURCES OF CONFLICT, THREAT AND HUMANITARIAN TRAGEDY 7. States and communities will be increasingly challenged by wide-ranging and complex transnational risks such as the challenges of a globalised economy and some will not cope. Strategic state failure will be a feature of the geopolitical landscape. In a world with a pervasive electronic communications, mobile populations and 24/7 media interest, local challenges to stability and order will have increasingly regional and global ramifications and therefore local and regional solutions may be insufficient to address emerging problems. 8. Governments will increasingly seek co-operative and international solutions to the challenges. However, some regimes will take whatever unilateral action is necessary to pursue their interests in the face of abrupt or catastrophic change. 9. Inter-communal conflicts will tend to take on a transnational dimension. Although large-scale interstate warfare is unlikely, competition for finite resources and intolerance to market forces may lead FUTURE TRENDS FROM THE CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN
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