Karen Nersesovich Brutenz is the author of books that have gained wide readership: "Thirty Years on Old Square" and "Unfulfilled," which many rated as one of the best historical works on perestroika. His new book is devoted to the nodal problems of world politics - the fate of the unipolar world and American hegemony that arose as a result of the collapse of the USSR. The attempt to perpetuate such a world order was defeated, and American hegemony began to decline. What lies ahead? The world, the author argues, is on the verge of a great geopolitical revolution, which is preceded or in step with it by a "revolution in the minds." World literature, including books by state leaders and luminaries of political thought, is filled with research and forecasts of world development for the foreseeable future. The variety of these judgments is widely and thoroughly presented in the book and serves as the author's material for his own conclusions and assessments - balanced and convincing and at the same time bold and intriguing.