The author, a professional diplomat, a high-ranking international politician, criticizes in this book the key features of the post-Cold War world order. The main statement is that the international community is becoming less and less manageable, and the geopolitical type of thinking and actions is becoming more and more ineffective. The growing power of the East, the civilizational, socio-economic and political problems of the West, the "individualization" of the world, the strengthening of the influence of emotions, national codes, and mental orientations of society require the elites to radically rethink the logic of managing world processes. The author considers the task of reinterpreting the role of Europe in world events especially acute. There will be no simple solutions, the author states. One thing is clear: the growing process of "new globalization convergence" is capable of combining fragments of the puzzle of a multipolar world into a harmonious picture of the symbolic continent "New Pangea."