The book outlines the formation of a global system of international relations and describes the role of the main ideological paradigms in world political processes, the evolution of the place of the traditional East in the international system during the XVI-XX centuries is considered, the stages and features of the colonial conquest and liberation of the Asian and African continents are highlighted, the growing role of the East in world politics, the strengthening of its demographic and economic potentials, the processes of militarization of the states of Asia and Africa, their involvement in global and regional development projects, relations of modern Russia with the countries of the East, prospects for the evolution of the eastern range in the world political system of the current century.