In the proposed revised third edition of the textbook, well-known international experts analyze the main trends of modern world development, its driving forces, consider options for the development of the international political situation, megatrends and trends that are developing and will have a decisive impact on the state, position and policies of individual subjects. Megatrends on the formation of the world order of the XXI century, the processes of globalization-counterglobalization, digitalization, multi-level reconfiguration of the world, ideologization, environmentalization and a number of other important trends are considered.