The textbook covers the main events and problems of the history of international relations since the end of the Second World War and before the collapse of the bipolar system of the world order. The book characterizes the specifics of international relations of the bipolar world, analyzes in detail the main trends in the development of world political processes of the 1940s-1980s. Much attention is paid to the military-political aspects of global and regional security, including the problems of strategic stability. An important place in the textbook is the identification of the characteristic features of the functioning of the global system of international relations and the established regional subsystems, the role of leading factors in the formation of the main trends in the development of international relations. For students of higher education institutions .