Świat na rozdrożu – ewolucja międzynarodowego otoczenia Unii Europejskiej - część 2

The article completes and closes an enquiry into and an analyse of the evolution of the Europe an Union’s international environment, contained in Part 1, published in the previous issue of our yearbook. Following presentation of the fundamental global problems regarding social and economic development, environmental issues and security in the previous part, this final part mainly analyses transformations in the area of power arrangement on the global scale. The Author acknowledges historically inevitable fall of the present unipolar system dominated by the USA and presents rudiments of a new global system which only begins to form basing on changes taking place in the arrangement of economic, military and political forces in the present world.