Историјска рефлексија о локусу глобалне безбедности – оживљавање Индо-Пацифика
Historical Reflection on the Locus of Global Security – the Indo-Pacific Revival

Summary/Abstract: This article offers an alternative hypothesis about the possible transformation of the system of international relations in the early 21st century by changing the centuries-old centre of global security, i.e., the “locus” from the European to the Indo-Pacific macrospace. The authors introduce five distinctive features of the newly proposed concept that can contribute to methodological efforts to innovate the study of international relations in the future. The discussion traces a set of arguments based on the definitive end of the era of unipolarity caused by a number of processes and events that have taken place over the last few years. The gravity of global security – the locus dominated by the US and supported by other states of the global West – was oriented dominantly to the northern part of the EuroAtlantic area during the last eight decades. Such geographical proximity to the European security regional complex enabled the US to enjoy exclusivity in the sphere of political and security dominance over the entire world. This article aims to examine the trends, principles, and processes that have led to the shift of the locus of global security from the wider area of Europe to the Indo-Pacific region. The authors base their argument on the assumption that the growing economic and strategic importance of the Indo-Pacific region, together with the change in global power dynamics, leads to a shift in the focus of global security efforts to this region and the orientation of the remaining superpowers in the system of international relations to a new geographical area. The authors identify the peculiarities of the Indo-Pacific as a new locus of global security and discuss the future of the "security abandoned" Euro-Atlantic space in the new distribution of global relations.

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