In this book, Z. Brzezinski and B. Scowcroft together try to find answers to the most pressing questions facing modern America: how to build relations with a growing China and an intractable Russia, how to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and finally settle the Palestinian conflict. Israeli conflict? And why did the number one superpower, which was enthusiastically called “the most powerful since the Roman Empire,” a country that knew no competitors after the collapse of the USSR and was considered a stronghold of freedom and tolerance, suddenly become an object of universal hatred and distrust? According to the authors of the book, changes in the attitude of the world to the United States are not the result of administrative errors of any particular American government. Not at all. They believe that the very “nature of power” is changing. But what are these changes? And how can America adapt to them?