The world order is evolving toward polycentricity, producing its winners and losers, and driving up the global and regional demand for governance, security, justice, and ethics. The book offers a perspective of key Russian experts in international affairs on these transformations. On the global level it touches upon the issues of global governance, state transformation, phenomenology of globalization, international security, and international political economy. On the regional level it deals with issues of economic integration, energy security, сyber security, nuclear proliferation viewed from a perspective of Pacific Asia, East Asia, Latin America, Middle East, Post-Soviet Area.

Andrey Baykov is an Associate Professor of International Affairs and Vice-President for Research at MGIMO University, as well as a non-resident Professor at Henley Business School (UK). Dr. Baykov is also the editor of the International Trends, a leading Russian IR theory journal. He has authored or co-authored more than 60 articles in refereed journals, four monographs, and over 10 textbooks for undergraduate and graduate students reading International Politics.

Tatiana Shakleina is a well-known specialist in international studies, American and Russian foreign policy, and Russian-American relations. For a long time she worked in a prestigious and well-known think-tank — the Institute of the USA and Canada Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences, where she was the Head of the Department of Foreign Policy Studies.