The economic crisis is changing the redistribution of the world power. While experts warn the European Union, the US and Japan of the possibility that the economic weakening may be followed by a debt crisis on the example of the one that worries Greece already, the economy and military budget of China still rises. Will the Western democracies be able to ensure their security despite indebtedness? How will the distribution of power develop between the West, China and Russia, which is prospering from the export of strategic materials?

Experts from the third sector, media and international organizations will search the answers to these questions during the discussions at the security conference GLOBSEC 2010 on Monday and Tuesday in Bratislava.

Under the lead of Philip Stephens, the well known journalist of Financial Times, this topic will be discussed by Camille Grand, managing director of the Foundation for Strategic Research in Paris; Brigita Schmögnerová, former Finance Minister of the Slovak Republic and former Vice President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; John Kornblum former US Ambassador to Germany; and Miriam Campanella, Associate Professor of international political economy at the University of Turin.

The GLOBSEC 2010 conference, organized by the Slovak Atlantic Commission in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic, the European Commission Representation in Slovakia and the NATO Public Diplomacy Division, will be live-streamed through the conference website www.globsec.org.