About the book: 2008 / For five centuries, the West owned the vast expanses of the earth - mineral resources, industrial production, trade, military control. But at the end of the 20th century, the control of Western countries over world development weakened, and the sphere of Western dominance narrowed before our eyes. The usual predominance of the West has begun to give way to new centers of world development. We are witnessing a radical turn in the center of world development and power from the North Atlantic to Eastern Eurasia - unthinkable just a few years ago and inevitable today. Professor A.I. Utkin is the director of the Center for International Studies ISKRAN (Moscow), worked in research and university centers of the West and East, in New York, Paris, Istanbul, Shanghai, he is the author of 46 monographs, many of which have been translated into foreign languages.