Kierunki ewolucji europejskiego systemu bezpieczeństwa międzynarodowego w drugiej dekadzie XXI w.
Directions of Evolution of the European System for International Security in the Second Decade of the 21st Century

Author(s): Mieczysław Stolarczyk
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Political Sciences
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: international system; security; Europe
Summary/Abstract: The contemporary system of international relations in Europe and around the world is quickly transformed in the second decade of the 21st century. The European security system as the main element of international relations in Europe is subject to considerable changes. The research objective of this work is to indicate the main challenges and threats for national and international security in Europe, which have recently caused a considerable deterioration of national and international security in Europe (reduced feeling of security and actual, objective security), also for Poland, and to point to the actions aimed at eliminating or reducing the challenges and risks significant for European security. In this context, main tendencies have been outlined related to the European security system in the second decade of the 21st century, such as reduced chances to build a cooperative security system in Europe, intensifying the arms race (militarisation of foreign policies of many states), increased threat of Islamic terrorism, overlapping crises in the EU, stricter geopolitical rivalry for influence in the post-Soviet territories, weaker tendencies towards the westernisation and Europeanisation of Russia’s foreign policy, increased tendency to exaggerate the role of Germany from the EU leader to the position of a dominant state, new, unsettling tendencies in the foreign policy of the United States in the first half-year of Donald Trump’s administration.

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