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Politically, the Asian continent has a in addition to its cultural component
complex and non-homogeneous political manifested in globalization and American
environment, ranging from democracies in cultural dominance—something Asian

Japan and South Korea to authoritarian powers have yet to offer a complete
regimes in neighboring countries facing alternative to. She concluded her remarks
real challenges in poverty and social by stating that the international system is
inequality. Thus, she argued, there is more in a state of intellectual and analytical

than one Asian Century. Asia is fluidity. It is possible to infer the
undergoing demographic and economic continuation of American hegemony just
transformations that could hinder its role, as it is possible to infer its decline. On one
such as a declining labor force due to aging hand, the U.S. still possesses the world’s

populations, leading to increasing pressure most powerful military and greatest
on social security systems. In contrast, cultural influence. On the other, signs of its
Asia also faces security and geopolitical retreat are evident—foreign conflicts,
challenges, notably tensions in the South growing isolationist tendencies

China Sea and the potential conflict domestically, and discussions about the
between China and Taiwan, which could end of the American century. The world
reshape strategic balances on the stands at a crossroads between East and
continent. Despite the rise of major powers West, where the features of a new

like India and Brazil, and partial international system are taking shape.
emergence of Africa, complete Asian Wars such as the Russia-Ukraine conflict
dominance remains questionable. The or a potential China-Taiwan confrontation
international system is not heading toward may accelerate this transformation.

Asian unipolarity but rather toward However, the shape of this system, its
multipolarity, where powers like Western number of poles, and the time of its full
Europe and the U.S. continue to maintain emergence remain unclear.
leadership roles politically, economically, Dr. Heidi Kars then took the floor,

and militarily. affirming the significant value of the
There is ongoing debate about whether the strategic report, which represents a
liberal international order is in its death qualitative addition to the Arab library as
throes or merely facing a temporary crisis it comprehensively monitors international,

from which it can recover. It still enjoys regional, and local interactions. She
strong institutional roots, such as the focused her intervention on three main
International Monetary Fund and the axes within the chapter on international
World Bank, interactions. First, systemic

transformations in the international order:
she discussed ongoing structural shifts in
the global system, noting that the world is
going through a transitional phase marked

by instability and uncertainty. The system
is no longer clearly bipolar nor definitively
multipolar, and there is an erosion of the

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