International economic developments and their impact on the Caribbean

Prof. Dr. Paul Hilbers is a former Executive Director at the IMF in Washington and a member of the Boards of Financial Supervision for Aruba and Curaçao. He will discuss developments in the international monetary system from the 1944 Bretton Woods Agreement up to today’s trade wars. How do current international developments compare with what we have seen in the past? What are the major issues in the years ahead, and, above all, what does this mean for the Caribbean region?

When globalization meets island constraints

Growth, quality of life and governing Aruba’s carrying capacity

War in the Borderland: Four Ways to Interpret the Conflict in Ukraine

Why did the war in Ukraine happen, and what does it reveal about the changing international order?

Join us for the presentation of War in the Borderland: Four Ways to Interpret the Conflict in Ukraine, a timely study examining the origins and broader significance of the Russian-Ukrainian War through four complementary perspectives: geopolitics, geostrategy, geo-economics, and ideology.

Rather than attributing the conflict to a single cause, the book explores how Ukraine’s historical position between Russia and Central Europe, NATO enlargement, competing European and Eurasian integration projects, and contrasting political and civilizational narratives contributed to the escalation of tensions.