The reviewed мonograph - A. Stent: Putin's World: Russia and Its Leader through the Eyes of the West. Moscow, Intellektualnaya Literatura, 2020, 390 p. - is dedicated to the analysis of Russia's foreign policy of the first twenty years of the 21st century. The review highlights change in the conceptual approach to understanding Russian foreign policy behavior in the work of a well-known American political scientist. The author of the reviewed monograph highly appreciates the foreign policy achievements of the Russian Federation and the role of Vladimir Putin in the growth of the country's authority as a state that supports international stability, traditional values and the sovereignty of national states. It is concluded that in the context of a global decline in the influence of the "collective West" and the United States, new interpretations of the world order appear in the expert assessments of Western political scientists, in which issues of civilizational and cultural identity, history, ideology and worldview, and alternative models for understanding foreign policy reality have become increasingly important.