As the border between Europe and Asia blurs, a new world order is forming. Stretching from Lisbon to Shanghai, Eurasia will host a majority of the world's population and economic activity. Stitched together by China's Belt and Road strategy, its emergence will affect every element of global society, from shipping to agriculture, digital economy to tourism, politics to culture, with consequences for both European integration and the role and identity of the United States. In his talk, Bruno Maçães will explore whether the emergence of Eurasia and the roll-out of the Belt and Road is about more than power projection and profit. Might it herald a new set of universal political values, to rival those of the West? Is it, in fact, the story of the century?
