The crisis of the WTO dispute settlement system: The state and scope of the proposed solutions

Ćuprić Damjan (),

The basic research question is whether the EU could grow from a major playerto a global power, withoutrealism in EU foreign policy. The question is being considered from the macro level of the structural-realist analysis of the contemporary international system. The subject of the article is a explanation of the impact of the change in polarity (bipolar and unipolar) of the international system on the emerging forms of enlargement and EU enlargement policy. In the context of the changed EU enlargement policy, the article discusses the problem of the (absence) of the need for a realistic EU foreign policy, which would be based on the ability to use its own force, in accordance with the analysis of the structure of the world and the existing international divisions which are shaping the new world order. The article aims to show the change in the forms of enlargement in the two observed time periods and to provide a scientific explanation of the said change, or rather to offer a scientific forecast of the EU’s foreign policy action in the multipolar system. The paper point out that in the emerging multipolar structure of the new world order and competitive models of organizing the world, as well as under the pressure of structural influences in the international system, the EU must be capable of conducting an effective broad-spectrum foreign policy which, apart from multilateralism, should also be based on realism and the possibilities for the use of force.

Keywords: European Union, polarity of the international system, EU foreign policy, EU enlargement policy, strategic security criteria, multilateralism, world order, realism