American concept of a new world order. Russia - the Third Rome. A look in a retrospective
In the international relations system of the 21<sup>st</sup> century, what a resistant tendency is still observed, is that the United States of America have a universal and a global domination, staticising, thereby, once existing macrosystem of relations: the metropole - the dominion. genesis of this concept during the period in detail is considered in the article from the moment of signing of the declaration of independence by the USA, up to today. Succession of events preceding the two world wars, and participation of the USA in them is analysed using a comparative-historical method, and, by means of the content analysis in the field of modern challenges and threats, the level of the American influence on these processes is determined. The role of the Russian Federation in new reality (it is long since Yalta Conference) as one of the main actors of the international scene capable to recover balance in of international relations system in detail is considered in the article.