The new edition (1st edition 2010, 2012) retains a systematic approach to the study of the history of international relations. The authors focus on the development and gradual degradation of the Yalta-Potsdam order, the consequences of the collapse of the USSR and the formation of a new world order, as well as new trends in its development in the 2010s. The development of the situation in regional subsystems is considered - in Europe, North America, East Asia, the Middle and Middle East, in Latin America. In the period after 2014, priority is given to a new stage in Russian foreign policy, given the conflict with Ukraine. The modern period of international relations between Russia and Western and Eastern countries is described.