During the debate that took place in the General Assembly of the World Political Forum in Turin, on March 4- 6, 2005 some speakers noted that the amount of crucial changes that occurred in the world in the last twenty years could well be compared to the consequences either of the world wars or of the great revolutions. Except that this time the impressive transformation of the total world scene shaking the foundations of the previous international order came as a result of political process in the form of a controlled political "chain reaction", leading one of the participants of the Assembly to qualify the "Twenty Years that Changed the World" - official theme of the conference - as the first "Velvet Revolution" in the new world's history. In order to analyze the political and social roots and origin of the processes that started twenty years ago, as well as explain how their outcome has projected us all into a different world the participants of the Turin Assembly debated during three days in the plenary sessions and workshops that dealt with the following subjects: Second Russian Revolution, The End of a History? Ending Cold War: Lost Paradise, Lost Chance? Global Challenges, Scattered Answers. The record of this exclusive discussion is presented in this book.