The new book by Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences A. Gromyko "Lessons of World Politics: Order or Law and Order? "(Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nestor-Istoriya, 2016, 240 p.) is far from accidental and, undoubtedly, very significant in modern global studies. The book is of genuine interest not only for its extremely relevant subject matter, but also for the fact that it belongs to the pen of a well-known scientist, diplomat, director of the Institute of Africa of the USSR Academy of Sciences / RAS from 1976 to 1992. Anatoly Andreevich Gromyko was one of the most prominent representatives of Russian global studies back in the period of its formation as an interdisciplinary field of scientific knowledge in the early 1970s. At the origins of domestic globalistics were: -at the head of philosophical and methodological studies of global problems - Academician I. T. Frolov; - mathematics-the prognostic direction was developed under the leadership of academician N. N. Moiseev; - in the field of studying global problems of the information society, the most authoritative was Academician A. P. Vinogradov; - global modeling was developed at the Institute for System Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences: its organizer and director-D. M. Gvishiani; -Mikhail Budyko, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, was a pioneer in the study of anthropogenic influence on the planet's climate; - the global aspects of education were actively developed by Academician I. F. Obraztsov; - the foundations of global forecasting were laid by such scientists as Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences G. G. Shakhnazarov and Professor I. V. Bestuzhev-Lada; - academician Yu. A. Ovchinnikov made the most important contribution to the study of the problem of food security; - academician M. A. Styrikovich held a leading position in studying the problems of global energy development; - global problems of international integration were studied by Academic ... Read more